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A Photograph By Ebrahim Haidari Of Tania

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Saroj K C
Professor Bobby Jones
English 1302
25 October 2017
Children are not labors Children are one of the most beautiful gifts one can get. However, especially in developing countries, many kids are being used as workers. Many different organizations are fighting for the rights of children. International Labor Organization (ILO) being one of the major ones. While many families and individuals feel blessed and joyful to have kids around them, other individuals treat children inhumanly. According to the research of ILO, the number of global child labor have declined from 246 million to 168 million. Nevertheless, there are still 168 million child labors in the world and it is not going to end anytime soon. Poverty, lack of education and social development, and to fulfil some people’s greed, children are being exploited emotionally and physically. This photograph by Ebrahim Haidari of Tania, a 15 years old girl from Bangladesh attempts to shed light on the heartless and inhuman abuse endured by child labors using emotion, tonal contrast and innocent portrayal of a child’s face.
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