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Millions of children around the world suffer from poverty,
violence
and diseases, many of them have to work hard.
Many people don’t
care
about this and it is terrible. Frankly, my heart bleeds seeing these
kids, who from an early age had to deal with this cruel world.
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
A street child displays acrobatic skills with the help of an
iron
ring during a street show in Katmandu, Nepal.
A stray dog looks on near a group of street children sleeping
on a
pavement in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 20.
Children eat a meal at a shelter for street children in
Katmandu,
Nepal, Friday, Nov. 20.
A street child sleeps next to a stray dog, as another looks
for fleas
in his clothes, in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Nov. 19.
Bangladeshi child laborers work at a balloon
workshop in Kamrangir
Char, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov.
School children chant morning prayers in
an open-air government-run
school in Jammu, India, Friday, Nov. 20.
Roha, an infant, is left sleeping on the sidewalk of a busy
street in
Mumbai, India on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Children wash clothes and bathe at a
water pipeline surrounded by
sewage in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Dinesh, 8, cuts rose stems outside a flower shop
in Gauhati, India on
Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Sheela, 6, walks the tightrope during a street performance in
Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Children play in a rickshaw at a garbage dump in Hyderabad,
India on
Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Children study in a yard with scrap collected for recycling,
in
Hyderabad, India, Friday, Nov. 20.
School children attend classes in an open-air government-run
school
in Jammu, India, Friday, Nov. 20.
Children from impoverished families attend a class at a
government-run school in Gauhati, India, Friday, Nov. 20.
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.
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.
Children gather to celebrate children's rights in Harare,
Friday,
Nov. 20.
Children push a cart through a darkened street in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 20.
In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 18, children
look for recyclable
materials at a garbage dump in Allahabad, in the northern Indian state
of Uttar Pradesh.
In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 18, a street child stands
on a
pile of garbage in Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, in Mumbai, India.
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Nov. 17, children
rummage for scrap
metal following a fire which gutted 400 houses in Mandaluyong city, east
of Manila, Philippines. The Philippine Labor Department estimates that
there are 2.1 million Filipino child workers, mostly in the agriculture
sector.
In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 16,
Marina, 3, center-left, plays
with other children in the back of a garbage collection truck where many
garbage collectors live and work on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.
This Nov. 16 photo shows Palestinian teacher Gada
Aby Ward teaching
in the Omar Ben al-Khattab School.
"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never
wrong."
