A child of a labourer uses a shovel to dry sweets inside its factory ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha or the “Festival of Sacrifice”, in Mazar-i-Sharif on July 27, 2020. (Photo by Farshad Usyan/AFP Photo)





An Afghan child walks with balloons he is selling on a street in Kabul on December 23, 2019. (Photo by Farshad Usyan/AFP Photo)





A young villager works in the maize field at Murkata village in Morigaon district, some 70 km from Guwahati on January 17, 2020. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





Children attempt to catch small fish as they play amongst plastic garbage at a slum area beside the heavily polluted Manila Bay on September 12, 2019. (Photo by George Calvelo/AFP Photo)





A young labourer handles pieces of an old tyre in Dhaka, Bangladesh on September 19, 2019. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)





A boy sells sweets and balloons during the celebrations marking the 29th anniversary of Kyrgyzstan's independence from the Soviet Union at the Ala-Too Square in Bishkek on August 31, 2020. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP Photo)





An Indian boy sells flowers to Hindu devotees of Lord Shiva as they perform rituals after collecting water from the river Ganges during the holy month of Shravan, In Allahabad on July 22, 2019. Shravan is considered the holiest month in the Hindu calendar with many religious festivals and ceremonies. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Three of the Delgado children, from right, Yuri, 11, Wendi, 9, and Alison, 8, make a drawer in the family carpentry workshop in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, September 2, 2020. In a country where informal employment makes up 70% of the economy, the closure of schools because of the new coronavirus pandemic puts more kids like the Delgados to work. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





A young Syrian boy works at a car repair shop in the town of Jandaris, in the countryside of the northwestern city of Afrin in the rebel-held part of Aleppo province, on June 11, 2022, a day before the annual World Day Against Child Labour. (Photo by Rami al Sayed/AFP Photo)





Alejandro, 9, catches bricks to pass over to a man who puts them in the kiln at a brick factory run by his uncles in Tobati, Paraguay, Monday, August 31, 2020. Members of brickmaking families said school closures due to COVID-19, scheduled to last at least until December, have led to many children and adolescents working longer hours, making it difficult to complete their virtual schoolwork. (Photo by Jorge Saenz/AP Photo)





Children unload a truck carrying papayas at Okhla wholesale vegetable market after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi on June 11, 2020. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)





In this Wednesday, May 13, 2020, photo, a girl pushes a cart of food at a market in Tougan, Burkina Faso. Violence linked to Islamic extremists has spread to Burkina Faso's breadbasket region, pushing thousands of people toward hunger and threatening to cut off food aid for millions more. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)





An Afghan boy holds protective face masks for sale in downtown, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 29, 2020. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Irene Wanzila, 10, works breaking rocks with a hammer along with her younger brother, older sister and mother, who says she was left without a choice after she lost her cleaning job at a private school when coronavirus pandemic restrictions were imposed, at Kayole quarry in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, September 29, 2020. The United Nations says the COVID-19 pandemic risks significantly reducing gains made in the fight against child labor, putting millions of children at risk of being forced into exploitative and hazardous jobs, and school closures could exacerbate the problem. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Laborers sort cotton sacks at a factory in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 11 June 2022. According to the Kandahar Chamber of Commerce, there are 22 cotton processing factories in Kandahar Industrial Park, which produces around two thousand tons of cotton, which as well as the usual export to Pakistan, for the first time a major part of the cotton was exported to Iran and Turkey, and the rest used as raw material for the oil industry, animal feed and the soap industry. These factories are the only factories which have activity in Kandahar. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)