A Bangladeshi child labourer poses for photographs amongst old tyres in Dhaka. A 2002/03 survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics found that approximately 4.9 million children worked as child labourers in Bangladesh, 14.2 per cent of the total 35.06 million children in the age group of 5-14 years. Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations on the planet with 40 per cent of its 144 million people living on less than one dollar a day. — AFP/Munir uz Zaman