Saturday, May 31, 2014

The World's Children


  World Day Against Child Labor

The International Labor Organization (ILO) observes June 12 as the World Day Against Child Labor. 
An estimated 10.5 million children worldwide, most of them underage, are working as domestic 
workers in people's homes, in hazardous and sometimes slavery-like conditions, says the ILO.


An Indian boy selling snacks sits beneath his trolley as it rains in Bhubaneswar, India, Wednesday, 
June 12, 2013. AP / Biswaranjan Rout


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Pakistani child, Jabro Mounir, 6, arranges bricks during his daily work in a brick factory, 
on World Day Against Child Labor, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. AP / Muhammed Muheisen

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A Pakistan scavenger girl collects recyclable items from garbage to earn a living for her family in 
Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. AP / B.K. Bangash

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Pakistani girl, Shimraz Younis, 10, prepares clay while working at a brick factory on World Day 
Against Child Labor, in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, , Wednesday, June 12, 2013. AP / Muhammed Muheisen

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Pakistan scavenger boys collect recyclable items from garbage to a earn living for their families 
in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. AP / B.K. Bangash

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A young boy works at a metal factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. 
AP / A.M. Ahad

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A supervisor, left, instructs 13-year-old Ramesh Sardar,of Nepal, center, as he works on
 a construction site for a road in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. AP / Niranjan Shrestha

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A Nepalese child worker carries tea for customers as he walks past two school children waiting 
for a bus in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. AP / Niranjan Shrestha

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A young Nepalese boy works at an embroidery factory in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 13, 2013.
 Thirty nine children below the age of 14 were rescued from sari embroidery factories with
 the help of Nepalese police and steps are being taken to send them home to their families. AP / Niranjan Shrestha

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A young Nepalese worker cries in fear after he is rescued by policemen during a raid on 
embroidery factories in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 13, 2013. AP / Niranjan Shrestha

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Young Nepalese boys work at an embroidery factory in Katmandu, Nepal,Thursday, June 13, 2013. 
Thirty nine children below the age of 14 were rescued from sari embroidery factories 
with the help of Nepalese police on Thursday. 
Authorities said steps are being taken to send them home to their families. AP / Niranjan Shrestha

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Nepalese children peep out from a police van after they were rescued from embroidery factories 
in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 13, 2013. AP / Niranjan Shrestha

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Nepalese children rescued by police during a raid on embroidery factories sit in a police station 
in Katmandu, Nepal,Thursday, June 13, 2013. AP / Niranjan Shrestha

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An Indian boy, selling jackfruit, sits on a hand cart holding an umbrella as he awaits customers
 in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. AP / Altaf Qadri

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An Indian boy displays readymade garments for sale in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, 
June 12, 2013. AP / Altaf Qadri

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An Indian boy yells to attract customers as another drinks water while selling potatoes in 
New Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. AP / Altaf Qadri

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Young Indian rag-pickers walk on a street in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 11, 2013.
  AP / Altaf Qadri


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Young Indian bonded child laborers wait to be processed at a safe house after being rescued 
during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan or Save the Childhood Movement,
 at a factory in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. More than 58 child laborers 
were rescued by the NGO in the Indian capital Tuesday, the agency said. AP / Kevin Frayer 
 

Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2013/06/2013-world-day-against-child-l.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#mi_rss=The%20Frame#storylink=cpy
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police. He was only 11.
Today, at 13, he shares a cramped, dingy shelter with 63 other runaways and former street kids in New Delhi. He is one of the lucky ones.
Twenty years after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, multitudes of children across the globe are still suffering from poverty, abuse and disease. Each year, 4 million babies die before they are a month old, 150 million children are engaged in child labor, more than 500 million have been affected by violence and 51 million have fallen so far through the cracks they have not even had their births registered, according to the United Nations. (19 images)


A street child searches for recyclable material in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Thursday, Nov. 19, a day ahead of Universal Children's Day. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school, but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday. AP / Anupam Nath

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A street child displays acrobatic skills with the help of an iron ring during a street show in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Nov. 19. AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe



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A stray dog looks on near a group of street children sleeping on a pavement in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 20. AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe



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Children eat a meal at a shelter for street children in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 20. AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe



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A street child sleeps next to a stray dog, as another looks for fleas in his clothes, in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Nov. 19. AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe



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Bangladeshi child laborers work at a balloon workshop in Kamrangir Char, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 19. AP / Pavel Rahman



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School children chant morning prayers in an open-air government-run school in Jammu, India, Friday, Nov. 20. AP / Channi Anand



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Roha, an infant, is left sleeping on the sidewalk of a busy street in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, Nov. 18. AP / Rafiq Maqbool



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Children wash clothes and bathe at a water pipeline surrounded by sewage in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, Nov. 18. AP / Rafiq Maqbool



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Dinesh, 8, cuts rose stems outside a flower shop in Gauhati, India on Wednesday, Nov. 18. AP / Anupam Nath



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Sheela, 6, walks the tightrope during a street performance in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Nov. 18. AP / Anupam Nath



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Children play in a rickshaw at a garbage dump in Hyderabad, India on Tuesday, Nov. 17. AP / Mahesh Kumar A



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Children study in a yard with scrap collected for recycling, in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Nov. 20. AP / Mahesh Kumar A



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School children attend classes in an open-air government-run school in Jammu, India, Friday, Nov. 20. AP / Channi Anand



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Children from impoverished families attend a class at a government-run school in Gauhati, India, Friday, Nov. 20. AP / Anupam Nath



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Leonardo Sanchez, 12, tries to pull cactus spines from his hands as a relative cuts more cactus pads at the La Merced market in Mexico City. The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago, yet millions of children the world over still suffer from violence and abuse, hunger and disease. AP / Gregory Bull



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Internally displaced women line up to receive therapeutic food for their children at a food distribution centre run by an organization called CAACID, funded by the UN agencies and European Union, in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Nov. 15. AFP / Getty Images / Mohamed Dahir



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Children gather to celebrate children's rights in Harare, Friday, Nov. 20. AP



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Children push a cart through a darkened street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 20. AP / Mustafa Quraishi

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Olivier Voisin -the victims of Syrian war

 
The war photographer Olivier Voisin, who was only 38 years old when he was killed in Hamah, Syria, earlier this year, during clashes between Assad's troops and the Free Syrian Army. In the photographs, sent to IJF13 a few days before being mortally wounded, Olivier captures the images of the victims of war - combatants and civilians together because in conflict there are no differences - moments of tranquility amid one fight and another, as they gather things, refugees, escapes, rebels who crouch finding shelter from the fighting or while studying the ruins of the city in search for snipers. It is war in its essential elements.
Olivier Voisin (died 24 February 2013) was a French photographer. In recent years he worked  in Brazil, Haiti, Kenya, Libya, Somalia and in 2012 he covered in particular the Syrian uprising. His photos have been published in Le Monde, Libération, L’Express, Paris Match, The Guardian and Le Soir.