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Abdou Fatao Pafadenam, 11, wraps stone blocks in his t-shirt in Pissy informal granite quarry since schools closed, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso June 12, 2020. Youth can legally work at the site at age 16. But despite the law, some 42% of Burkinabe children between the ages of 5 and 14 engage in some form of labor including back-breaking work in quarries, gold mines and cotton fields, according to a 2018 report by the U.S. Bureau of International Labor Affairs. (Photo by Anne Mimault/Reuters)
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