In developing countries one in six children from 5 to 14 years old is involved in child labor.
In the least developed countries, 30 percent of all children are engaged in child labor.
Boy working in candy factory, Kabul, 2006
Worldwide, 126 million children work in hazardous conditions, often enduring beatings, humiliation and sexual violence by their employers.
An eleven-year-old boy working in gold mine, Mindinao, Philippines, 1985
An estimated 1.2 million children — both boys and girls — are trafficked each year into exploitative work in agriculture, mining, factories, armed conflict or commercial sex work.
Children work in an opium field in Badakhshan, Afghanistan. 1982
The highest proportion of child laborers is in sub-Saharan Africa, where 26 percent of children (49 million) are involved in work.
Boy sells flowers in busy road, India 1993
Young Welder, Bombay, India, 1994
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together, and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” - Grace Abbott
Sources: www.unicef.org, www.ilo.org, www.crin.org
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Kuwait, 1991
Kuwait, 1991
Kuwait, 1991
Treating an Afghan child, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2002
Iraq, 2003
Afghanistan, 2002
Luzon, Philippines, 1985
On assignment during Desert Storm, 1991
Kashmir, 1999
Kashmir, 1998
Java, 1983
Burma, 1994
Australia, 1983
Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1992
Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 2006
Morocco, 1988
Manhattan neighborhood, 1996
Central Park, New York, NY, 1994
Fall of the Berlin Wall, November, 1989



Steam Train, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1983
Rice paddy fields, Banaue, Philippines, 1985
Women Working in Fields, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1996. These fields are no longer being cultivated.
Railroad line inspector being pushed by a retinue of workers to check for wear and tear on the tracks, Agra, India, 1983
Farmer separating the wheat from the chaff. Baluchistan, Pakistan, 1980
A view looking downtown towards the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan, New York City, 1994.
Tibet, 2000

Rijeka, Croatia, 1989
Picture of me in Lubiana before going to Lake Bled where my plane crashed.
Chari River in the Sahel region near N’Djamena, Chad,
Muddy field, Mali
Niger River, Mali
Bala Hisar Fort, Herat, Afghanistan, 2002
A young man returns to his hometown of Herat, 1991
School boy, Herat, 1991
Herati women looking at my picture of an orphan from Kandahar, October, 2009
Allahabad, 2001
Allahabad, 2001
Allahabad, 2001
Haridwar, India, 1998
Allahabad, 2001
Ujjain, India
Steve McCurry and Sadhu in Allahabad, 2001







Steve McCurry and Commander Abdul Raluf
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