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Child labour: Protecting the rights of the child

Child labour Cambodia: Child labour
A young girl in Kampong Cham, Cambodia, collecting used plastic bottles to sell for a few pence
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour India: Child labour
A boy in India trying to sell flowers at car windows
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour Morocco: Child labour
A 12-year-old boy polishes copper teapots in Marrakech, Morocco
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour Peru: Child labour
A five-year-old girl picking cotton with her parents in Peru. No "paga nada", they say - they are paid next to nothing for their harvest
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour Philippines: Child labour
Children near Malolo, in the Philippines, gather recyclable rubbish to sell to "junk-shops", which sell it on for a profit
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour Romania: Child labour
A 12-year-old Romanian girl plays the accordion in the street in Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour Peru: Child labour
A mother and daughter in Ghana processing raw palm kernels into oil by hand
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour Peru: Child labour
An Ethiopian boy taking fresh bread to the morning market
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour Peru: Child labour
Mothers and children working in a brick factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
Child labour Peru: Child labour
Three brothers in Firozabad, near Delhi, India, making glass bangles with tiny decorations
Photograph: Peter de Ruiter/Public Domain
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