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Twelve-year-old Aaliyah lives with her family on the Baleshwari River Delta in coastal Bangladesh. On any given day, she hauls a fishing net twice her size down to the riverbank to catch shrimp fry. She skips her school for days to catch the fry at the high tide of the river, especially during the peak season from March to June.
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The Indian case for child labour in pastoralism has been adequately overlooked, despite agriculture and its various branches being the largest employer of child labour. The Centre for Pastoralism estimates that there are 35 million pastoralists across India, with most of them living in austere and inhospitable regions, ranging from the cold deserts of Ladakh to the Thar Desert and Deccan plateau.
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