Resources for Global News Discussion

Dr. Claudette Crawford-Brown interacts with Shaniqua Long during an art therapy session at Shortwood Practising Infant, Primary and Junior High School in Kingston, Jamaica. Long's mother migrated to the United States. Image by Sabriya Simon. Jamaica.

Workers load finished bricks for transport out of the kiln in Dhading district, Nepal. Despite a national law that bans children under the age of 14 from working, many work alongside their families in the country’s brick making industry. Image by Ann Hermes. Nepal, 2016.

Atop Black Mountain: More than 6 million metric tonnes of lead slag form Black Mountain, a 30-meter pile of toxic lead waste that still contains a sizable quantity of lead, copper, manganese and zinc. Due to a depressed economy and lack of employment among many of Kabwe's residents, scavengers toil daily to mine some of the richer veins of lead slag for resale to reprocessing smelters in Zambia. The work is dangerous and sometimes deadly. 

Fishermen in Kangan, Iran, near the South Pars field. Image by Ako Salemi. Iran, 2016.

Bibi Kubra tries to comfort her son Mirwais, three, who had just fallen in the mud as a storm hit the Nasaji Bagrami displaced peoples camp. The camp has very basic mud floors that have problems every time it rains. Image by Paula Bronstein. Afghanistan, 2015.

Men, women and children load and unload finished and unfinished bricks at a kiln in the Dhading district, Nepal. Image by Ann Hermes. Nepal, 2016.

A view of the dried Zayandeh-Rood river from Khaju Bridge, in Isfahan. Image by Ako Salemi. Iran, 2016.

Students at the Leão Machado school dig plots before mixing in compost with the soil. Rhitu Chatterjee. Brazil, 2015.

Mahta, 70, pretends to be handicapped as she begs in downtown Kabul—she feels it’s the only way she can survive as a beggar in a city that has so many. Her husband was killed during the Taliban era, leaving her with four children. She makes eight to ten dollars a day. Image by Paula Bronstein. Afghanistan, 2015.

Homraj Acharya helps a young girl with a writing lesson at an early childhood education center next to a brick kiln in Dharke Bazar in the Dhading district, Nepal. As the director of Better Brick Nepal, a program aimed at eliminating child labor in brick kilns across the country, Mr. Acharya hopes to provide a better future for the children who call them home. Families are paid per brick, which incentivizes them to recruit their children to make as many as possible. BBN set up the education center last year in Dhading to offer them an alternative. Image by Ann Hermes. Nepal, 2016.

After drought, parts of Gavkhouni Salt Lake become salt extraction sites. Image by Ako Salemi. Iran, 2016.

Dorje Lama loads bricks with Ajmal Hasan, a mule owner, at the Rakta Kali brick kiln in the district of Dhading, Nepal. As many as 60,000 children work in brick kilns across the country. Image by Ann Hermes. Nepal, 2016.

Gulshan, 29, is pictured with her youngest daughter, Shubillah, four months, and Najiba, five. She has six children and lives in extreme poverty. Her landlord threatened her, saying that if she can’t pay rent, she should hand over her youngest daughter. Gulshan cleans houses to make a few dollars, but it’s not enough to feed her children. Image by Paula Bronstein. Afghanistan, 2015.