An indentured 'slave'
child carpet worker in Uttar Pradesh, India. These children work
for only a few rupees a day and are employed because only small
young fingers can manipulate the threads finely enough. They are
effectively the property of the factory owners. Since the UN year
of the child in 1992 the Indian government has sworn to eradicate
the exploitation of children. This has been an empty promise and
the factories are still full of the poorest children from Bihar
and Nepal whose parents have no choice but to sell them into slavery.
Dan White/Impact Photos