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Children scavenge for useful items in a heap of rubbish next to the polluted Buriganga River, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. 56 percent of the city’s population live in slums and slum-like conditions.
Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

  • Children scavenge for useful items in a heap of rubbish next to the polluted Buriganga River, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. 56 percent of the city’s population live in slums and slum-like conditions.

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  • Credits Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
  • Themes Human Rights
  • Regions Bangladesh

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