No matter where, regardless of ethnicity or religion, children are always objects that need to be loved, cared for and taught, and enjoy the best living environment. However, all over the world there are still children living in poverty, hunger, living in an environment full of violence and death.
Every day, many children die from war, poverty or disease. The following pictures will make anyone feel choked, in tears.
A Syrian refugee hugs her two children as she tries to get off a canoe to the islands of Lesbos, Greece. They made the long journey from Türkiye across the Aegean Sea. Reuters author Yannis Behrakis took this photo on September 24, 2015. Photo: Reuters
A man tries to protect his son as police crack down on hundreds of migrants and spray tear gas at the border of Horgos, Serbia, which borders Hungary. This photo was taken on September 16, 2015. Photo: New York Times.
The daily lives of these refugee children are faced with barbed wire, guns, fear and even death. In the photo is a man holding a child trying to cross the border to Macedonia, find his way to other countries.
A man holds his baby on his shoulder as he and a caravan of migrants break through police barriers at Tovarnik station to board a train to the Croatian capital Zagreb. Importers from Serbia flooded into Croatia two days after Hungary closed its border. The immigration crisis caused the European Union to disagree on how to handle it. Photo: Getty
The “Syrian Baby on the Shore” has shocked the world. It most faithfully reflects the reality of the humanitarian crisis that the world is facing in the face of a huge influx of migrants and refugees fleeing wars pouring into Europe. A 3-year-old Kurdish baby named Aylan, along with his mother and brother, were killed while fleeing the war in Syria. Photo: Reuters
Having witnessed with his own eyes the war that claimed his sister, Abdullah seemed to be devastated and had nightmares every night. Now that pain is doubled when I don’t have medicine to treat the blood disease. The photo was taken in Belgrade, Serbia.
Bombs and bullets have caused children who are living in the care and love of their families to fall into the sky and earth.
Not only facing war, bombs and bullets, many children also have to do hard work to make a living. Image of Indian children helping their parents to work for a construction site.
Little Shilu is sifting stones in the Bhollar Ghat area, on the banks of the Piyain River. Construction demand in Bangladesh is increasing, pushing up material prices while the supply of sand and gravel is scarce, so contractors often take advantage of child labor to exploit these materials.
A child plays with a pile of leather waste in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This slum specializes in the implementation of fashion leather products. Children also soon have to work, in direct contact with toxic chemicals. The air and water here are heavily polluted.
A girl plays with her brother at a scrap yard near Danyingone station in Yangon, Myanmar.
A boy pushes a cart filled with sacks of coal at a garbage collection area in Tondo, Philippines.
In the Charan slum, northern India, a paying mother had to starve one of her children for days because she was too poor.
