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cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, somewhat brittle, gray metal.
child labour
exploitation of children through any form of work
coltan
thumb|upright|right|A piece of columbite–tantalite, size 6.0 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm Coltan (short for columbite–tantalite and known industrially as tantalite) is a dull black metallic ore from which the elements niobium and tantalum are extracted. The niobium-dominant mineral in coltan is columbite (after niobium's original name columbium), and the tantalum-dominant mineral is tantalite.
chimney sweep
person who cleans chimneys
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young male servant
camel racing
Popular sport in parts of Africa, Asia and Australia
debt bondage
person's pledge of their labor or services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation
trafficking of children
form of human trafficking defined as the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, and/or receipt" of a child for the purpose of exploitation
sweatshop
thumb|right|upright=1.25|A sweatshop in the United States c. 1890 A sweatshop or sweat factory is a cramped workplace with very poor and/or illegal working conditions, including little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting and ventilation, or uncomfortably or dangerously high or low temperatures. The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging, or underpaid. Employees in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated. Women make up 85 to 90% of swe
OST-Arbeiter
thumb|250px|"Nationality badges" () of from Russia, [[Ukraine and Belarus colored in accordance with their national flags: blue Saint Andrew's cross on white within a red oval (white-blue-red flag of Russia), yellow within blue badge with the Ukrainian trident and white and red badge in accordance to the white-red-white flag of Belarus. The badges were legally introduced on 19 June 1944 as replacements for the "OST" badges and practically implemented seemingly only after February 1945.]] '''''''''' (, "Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign workers gathered from occupied Ce
cabin boy
young low ranking male employee who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
ball boy
individuals, usually youths, who retrieve and supply balls for players or officials in sports
paperboy
thumb|upright|A paperboy for the Toronto Star in [[Whitby, Ontario, Canada, 1940]] A paperboy is someoneoften an older child or adolescentwho distributes printed newspapers to homes or offices on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile. In Western nations during the heyday of print newspapers during the early 20th century, this was often a young person's first job, perhaps undertaken before or after school. This contrasts with the newsboy or newspaper hawker, now extremely rare in Western nations, who would sell newspapers to passersby on the street, often with very vocal promotion.
commercial sexual exploitation of children
commercial transaction that involves the sexual exploitation of a child
Olam Group Limited
Singaporean agriculture company
Restavec
A restavek (or restavec) is a child in Haiti who is sent away by their parents to live with a host household as a form of informal adoption because the parents lack the resources required to support the child. The term comes from the French language , "to stay with". Parents unable to care for children may send them to live with wealthier (or less poor) families, often their own relatives or friends. Often the children are from rural areas, and relatives who host restaveks live in more urban settings. The expectation is that the children will be given food and housing (and sometimes an educati
Impact of war on children
effects of several wars on children
Verdingkinder
thumb|A child slicing Swiss chard leaves prior to drying them on the stove or sun drier, Switzerland, 1917
lemonade stand
common business
child slavery
forced, unpaid labor of children (minors)
Swabian children
children of mountain farmers from Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
ritual servitude
tradition of human beings as payment
International Conference on African Children
Child auction
historical form of poor care
Child trafficking in India
children in cocoa production
controversial use of children in the production of cacao beans
child labour in Africa
overview about child labour in Africa
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
United Nations Special Rapporteur
mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Overview of mining and the country's main mineral resources
newspaper hawker
occupation
Faces of Freedom
exhibition of photos taken in South Asia
detasseling
upright=0.80|right|thumb|The tassel of a corn plantDetasseling corn is removing the pollen-producing flowers, the tassel, from the tops of corn (maize) plants and placing them on the ground. It is a form of pollination control, employed to cross-breed, or hybridize, two varieties of corn.
Child labour in the diamond industry
chico baterista
youth employed to play a drum in the military