GMB Akash‘s gallery on child labor in Bangladesh spans more than a year of reporting and adds to his collection of photos documenting a complicated section of the Asian continent. The variety of his work, from suicide farmers, hermaphrodites, brick makers, and railroad hitchhikers, bring us close, almost too close, the fringes of the world he sees.
“Child labour is not a new issue in Bangladesh as children remain here one of the most vulnerable groups living under threats of hunger, illiteracy, displacement,exploitation,trafficking,physical and mental abuse. Although the issue of child labor has always been discussed, there is hardly any remarkable progress even in terms of mitigation”
Links:
60 photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Bureau.
Wikipedia – Child Labor
Child labor laws in the US
National Child Labor Committee
Keating-Owen Act
Global march against child labor
UNICEF – Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse …
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