In the world of work used by 165 million children aged 5 to 14 years, of which 74 million are engaged in work that could be dangerous. Compared with other continents, child labor is most actively used in Asian countries. Despite the fact that over the past six years the number of minors who work here fell by nearly 5 million people, yet 122 million children and adolescents aged 5 to 14 years engaged in commerce or in the workplace. Among the “leaders” in the use of child labor appear on such countries as Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

1) Extreme poverty and economic difficulties are forcing Bangladeshi children to seek work to help their families. (REUTERS PICTURES)

2) According to the report of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 33 million children under 18 living in Bangladesh, representing about 56 percent of the child population, currently live below the international poverty line, defined as income of U.S. $ 1 per person day. (REUTERS PICTURES)

3) On the picture – underage workers brickworks spread bricks for drying. Bricks are made by hand here. (REUTERS PICTURES)

4) The total population of Bangladesh is 140 million, 63 million, or 44 percent of the total population are children. In the picture – children work in the shop for balloons in Kamrangir Chara on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. (REUTERS PICTURES)

5) Bangladesh – a country where child labor is used more than anywhere else. In Bangladesh, among children aged ten to fourteen years elapsed operate 30,1%. (REUTERS PICTURES)

6) Children often during the holidays, and sometimes skipping classes during the school year, do the dirty and hard work. (REUTERS PICTURES)

7) Some of the children are forced to leave school to continue to work and help their families cope with poverty. In the picture – the production of bricks. (REUTERS PICTURES)

The exploitation of child labor in most cases due to the fact that even those parents who wish to send their children to school, often can not afford it. (REUTERS PICTURES) 9) As a result, children are sent to work in fields, factories and even in the mines. (REUTERS PICTURES)

9) Almost 50 percent of primary schools in Bangladesh to drop out of school before the end of grade 5. (REUTERS PICTURES)

10) Such high rates due to low quality of public primary education, low levels of adult literacy, low awareness of the importance of education.

11) As a result, child labor in Bangladesh is more than 12 percent of the total labor force.

12) Approximately 25 children, worked at the factory aluminum products in Dhaka. (REUTERS PICTURES)

13) They work 12 hours a day and receive for their work 60 taka ($ 1.70) per day. (REUTERS PICTURES)

14) In Bangldadesh society as a whole because of the prevailing tradition is rather indifferent attitude to the problem of child labor. (

15) Millions of children are deprived of their childhood Aziii (REUTERS PICTURES)

Parents Arun Kumar – disabled, grandmother and grandfather beat him, he ran away from home, he found work in a sewing factory, but all his savings stolen by the police. He was only 11 years old.  Today, he 13 and he lives with other street children on the streets of New Delhi. He was lucky.

20 years after the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child huge number of children around the world still suffers from poverty, violence and disease. Each year 4 million children die before they reach one month, 150 million children work, more than 500 million exposed to violence, but 51 million do not even remember your birthday

Soon after Rifleman William Aldridge became the youngest British soldier to die in Afghanistan, his mother told the Army that the only one of his personal belongings she really cared about was his camera.

‘I knew he was a keen photographer and that something of him might have survived,’ said Lucy Aldridge.

At first, she was told it had been lost.

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The strongest over the past 80 years rainfall turned a few highways of Istanbul in the turbulent river. A lot of cars caught up in disaster. Flooded railway station. Does not stop with Monday torrential rains caused flooding of large areas in the north-west of the country. Killed several dozen people. Former capital of the country suffered a multimillion-dollar damages.

People on the flooded road in Istanbul.

Man rescued a dog in the Thracian district of Istanbul.

A person waiting for help, standing on a submerged truck. Picture taken after heavy rains in Istanbul.

Previous photo from another angle. At one of the streets of Istanbul element converted minibus in an iron coffin. The car immediately sank seven women.

Man on the partially submerged bus at the Istanbul highway waiting for rescuers.

Previous photo from another angle. As a result of floods in Turkey killed 31 people. According to the edition of Hurriyet, among those killed 24 residents of Istanbul.

People on the roof of the bus waiting for help.

Rescue workers and local residents gathered near the damaged cars in the rescue operations in Istanbul.

The damage from the worst floods in recent years Istanbul was about 70-80 million dollars.

The wreckage of trucks washed floodwater.

Search and rescue from the wreckage of trucks.

Rescuer descends to the submerged car.

Aerial view of the district of Istanbul, the victim of the very heavy rain over the past 80 years.

Inundated Istanbul - view from the air

Large-scale damage to the truck - view from the air.

Flooded railway station in Istanbul.

Large-scale damage to the truck - view from the air.

In Istanbul flood came in the eighth floor in the morning.

Lightning flooded suburbs, and turned the road into the vortex of the rivers

Powerful waves picked up hundreds of cars and carried them to the sea coast.

Now the coast of the car resembles a huge dump.

The water is rising so fast that some have not even managed to jump out of the car.

Emergency services at warped element of freight transport.

On August 17th, near Sayanogorsk in south central Russia, a catastrophic accident took place in the turbine and transformer rooms of the hydroelectric plant of the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam.

• Tremendous amount of water from the Yenisei River flooded the turbine room, causing at least one transformer explosion and extensive damage to all ten turbines, destroying at least three of them.
• 74 workers are known to have lost their lives in the accident, while one remains missing. Additionally, 40 tons of transformer oil were spilled into the river, killing an estimated 400 tons of trout in two fisheries.

Rescuers work in the debris of the damaged dam of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, about 520 km (323 miles) south of Krasnoyarsk, Russia on August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam is seen from above Cheryomushky, Russia on August 20, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam is seen from a helicopter in Cheryomushky on August 20, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

The Generator Hall of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, seen intact on June 25th, 2009, weeks before the accident. (Andrey Korzun / CC BY-SA)

The same hall as photo #4 above, seen after the accident. Rescuers work in the debris of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station near Siberian village of Cheryomushki, August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Damage to the Sayano-Shushinskaya power station in southern Siberia is seen Monday, Aug. 17, 2009 in this photo released by the Emergency Ministry, Siberian Branch on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Emergency Ministry, Siberian Branch)

Rescuers cut steel on the site of the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam on August 17, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Rescuers carry a stretcher with the body of a victim at the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, on August 17, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Russian emergency rescuers work at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A rescuer and dog look for victims in the debris of the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, damage is seen in the generator hall at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia. (AP Photo/ Rossiiskaya Gazeta Newspaper)

Relatives of victims in the accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station read information at the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu explains the nature of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Medical personnel comfort a relative of a victim of the accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya dam on August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

People grieve as they attend funeral for victims of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station, in a settlement of Cheryomushki, August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Pallbearers carry the coffin of a man who died in the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam accident at a funeral in Cheryomushky on August 20, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Damaged equipment is seen at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/ Rossiiskaya Gazeta Newspaper)

Buildings sit on the bank of the oil-polluted waters of the Yenisei River, downstream from the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam in Cheryomushky on August 20, 2009. Oil from the dam’s turbines was released into the water as a result of the accident. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A boat motors through oil-slicked water in the Yenisei River, downstream from the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam on August 20, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Workers collect an oil spill in the Yenisei River, which occurred after the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, near the settlement of Mayna, August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Workers contain an oil spill in the Yenisei River, near the settlement of Mayna, Russia on August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits the accident site at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 21, 2009. At right is Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images)

In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 rescuers work at the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam. (AP Photo)

The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam is seen from a helicopter in Cheryomushky on August 20, 2009. The missing roof of the damaged generator hall is visible at top center. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

The damaged and flooded generator hall of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on August 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

A general view of the damaged generator hall of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, seen on August 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Russian emergency workers at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Russian first responders work the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A general view shows the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam hydroelectric power station and Yenisei River, near Cheryomushki, August 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Rescuers work in the debris of the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Russian workers at the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Plans are in place to disassemble and replace the three destroyed turbines, and to repair the remaining seven. (AP Photo/Vitaly Bezrukikh)

A general view of the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam and hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia, seen on Friday, Aug. 21, 2009. (AP Photo)

More links and information

Body of 74th victim of HPP accident found, SKP confirms – ITAR-TASS 9/9

Decaying Soviet Infrastructure Shows Its Era – NYTimes.com, 8/20

Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam – Google Map

2009 Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro accident – Wikipedia entry