A boy uses tongs to soak hides in a pit of diluted chemicals in a Hazaribagh leather tannery.

A boy uses tongs to soak hides in a pit of diluted chemicals in a Hazaribagh leather tannery. Even though international law binding on Bangladesh and Bangladesh’s own labor law prohibit employing children under 18 in harmful or hazardous work, many children work in Hazaribagh’s leather tanneries.
 

© 2012 Arantxa Cedillo/Human Rights Watch