Children of the World

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Hunter holds a hawk during the annual competition hawkish hunting in Kazakhstan. (Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters)

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A child of a commuter sleeps in a hammock at a railway station in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad February 25, 2011. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder

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A young acrobat performs during the Shehuo festival to celebrate the upcoming lantern festival in Taiyuan, Shanxi province February 16, 2011. The lantern festival marks the last day of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and falls on February 17 this year. REUTERS/Stringer

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Palestinian children are seen through wholes made by Israeli rockets and bullets during an Israeli attack on Khanyounies

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A child in traditional costume walks with his parents as they visit the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (March 2, 2011) (Andy Wong/Associated Press

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A boy poses on a motorbike during a religious procession to mark Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, or birthday celebrations of Prophet Mohammad, in the old quarters of Delhi February 16, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

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A girl attends Friday prayers in front of an army tank in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 18, 2011. Egyptians held a nationwide Victory March on Friday to celebrate the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule one week ago, to protect the revolution and to remind new military rulers of the power of the street. Hundreds of thousands joined the rallies, which are also a memorial to the 365 people who died in the 18-day uprising, with many Egyptians expressing their intention to guard their newly-won prospect of democracy. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

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A Somali refugee girl covers her face at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)

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Afghan children watch as U.S. Marines from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company patrol through the town of Nabuk in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, February 18, 2011. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

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Children watch U.S. Marines patrol the town of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province February 21, 2011. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

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A child rests on a pile of oranges at a fruit market in Peshawar March 10, 2011. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

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A boy walks down from a pile of iron scrap as another child searches through metal pieces in the outskirts of Islamabad February 23, 2011. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

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A Tunisian boy rests in a tent after crossing into Tunisia with his family at the Ras Jdir border to flee the unrest in Libya February 23, 2011. Thousands of Tunisians are fleeing Libya, many across its western land border, after a bloody crackdown on protests against the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, state media reported on Tuesday. Tunisia has at least 30,000 nationals in Libya and officials fear they could become targets because of Tunisia's role in inspiring uprisings across the Arab world. Tunisia's leader was overthrown in January, and Egypt's president fell on Feb. 11. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Muslim girls smile as they work in a rice field in the troubled Yala province in southern Thailand February 28, 2011. Separatists are blamed for most of the attacks on Thailand's predominantly Muslim deep south, which often target Buddhists and Muslims associated with the Thai state, such as police, soldiers, government officials and teachers. No credible group has claimed responsibility for near daily drive-by shootings and bombings, which continue unabated, despite a massive counterinsurgency effort. Yala and Pattani are two of three Muslim-dominated provinces bordering Malaysia where more than 4,300 people, both Muslims and Buddhists, have been killed in a low-level insurgency since 2004. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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Children bathe at St. Ambrose church in Angree, Abidjan March 1, 2011, a temporary refuge for people fleeing from clashes between forces loyal to incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Ouattara. Security in Ivory Coast is deteriorating, with gun battles between rival forces most of last week and wider hostilities resuming across a north-south ceasefire line that had been largely quiet since the 2002-3 civil war ended in stalemate. Insurgents believed to back Ouattara now control of most of the northern Abidjan suburb of Abobo after the clashes. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon

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Afghan boys joke with each other as they make bubbles with chewing gum in Kabul March 2, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

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A girl jumps near a hot air balloon as it is being prepared for take off in a field near Kibbutz Ruhama, as part of a festival in southern Israel March 3, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

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A Bangladeshi boy sits with his family on a bus at a refugees camp near the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir after fleeing unrest in Libya March 6, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

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Young men covered in oil and ash stand on a street in San Martin Tilcajete, near Oaxaca March 8, 2011. The men paint themselves to ward off evil spirits in this century-old tradition during a festival before Lent and Ash Wednesday. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Plata

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A girl walks home with firewood in the world's biggest refugee complex in Dadaab, Kenya (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Nineteen month-old Lilly picks daffodils in St James's Park in central London, March 12, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

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A Haitian girl eats candy beside a poster of Haiti's presidential candidate Michel Martelly, next to packets of charcoal at downtown Port-au-Prince March 15, 2011. Martelly will face rival, former first lady Mirlande Manigat, in a March 20 run-off election. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

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A boy attends a campaign rally of Haitian presidential candidate Michael Martelly in Hinche March 15, 2011. Martelly will face rival, former first lady Mirlande Manigat, in a March 20 run-off election. REUTERS/Kena Betancur

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A boy bats during a baseball practice in the coastal town of Ocumare February 25, 2011. Boys as young as five years old are training in Venezuela's Little Leagues. Some of them live in the city's slums or poorer neighborhoods and think baseball could be a ticket to a different life. Being a major league baseball player is the dream of thousands of children, but in Venezuela it is also a chance for a brighter future. In 2010 a record 58 Venezuelans played in Major League Baseball in the United States, making up more than a quarter of all the players born outside the U.S. Between 1939 and 2010 a total of 258 Venezuelans have gone on to play in major league teams in the United States. Picture taken February 25, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

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Jeanquis, 6, jumps a rope outside South Los Angeles Learning Center in Los Angeles, California March 16, 2011. The center is run by School on Wheels, which uses volunteers to tutor homeless children in shelters, parks, motels, and two centers. There has been a surge in the number of homeless children in Los Angeles in the last five years, due to persistent unemployment and mounting foreclosures. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

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Jayla studies on a computer at the shelter where she lives in Los Angeles, California February 9, 2011. School on Wheels uses volunteers to tutor homeless children in shelters, parks, motels, and two centers. There has been a surge in the number of homeless children in Los Angeles in the last five years, due to persistent unemployment and mounting foreclosures. Picture taken February 9, 2011. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

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Girls stand together during the visit of Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari at Fanga Suk village, in East Jebel Marra (West Darfur), 88 km from Tawilla March 18, 2011. Gambari met the coalition of rebel forces (Minni Minawi and Abdul Wahid of the Sudan Liberation Forces (SLA) and the Liberation and Justice Movement), who control the area, and the few remaining villagers after most of the population fled some days ago due to recent clashes. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

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Children covered in coloured powder are sprayed with water as they celebrate Holi, also known as the festival of colours, at a school in Ahmedabad March 19, 2011. The traditional event heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. REUTERS/Amit Dave

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Boys hold toy guns during a protest by supporters of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi at Green Square in Tripoli March 21, 2011. REUTERS/ Zohra Bensemra

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Children are reflected in murky waters after swimming at Laguna de Bay in Taguig City, Metro Manila March 22, 2011. The United Nations' (U.N.) World Water Day is held on March 22 every year to increase people's awareness of water's importance in environment, agriculture, health and trade. REUTERS/ Cheryl Ravelo

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children light cigarettes during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood March 21, 2011. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

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(L to R) Zarah Kelsey, Kendra Todd, Brianna Brown and Alana Jones wait for the results of the girls 50 meter fastest kid on the block race at the 104th Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York, January 28, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

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Children pose for a photograph as they collect recyclable materials along a railway track near a slum in Karachi January 30, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

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Iranian schoolboys wear Palestinian scarves while attending the Iranian parliament in Tehran January 30, 2011. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

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Children sit inside a classroom on their first day of school at Shimizu elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan April 6. Over 70 schools began their regular classes on Wednesday in the city of Fukushima, after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on March 11. Carlos Barria / Reuters

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Afghan children play as they eat ice lollies in Kabul on March 21, the Afghan New Year. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

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A girl peers from behind a doorway at a roadside kiosk in Senegal's capital Dakar January 31, 2011. REUTERS/ Finbarr O'Reilly

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An Afghan child clad in blue gum-boots walks toward a checkpoint operated by US Marines from the Second Battalion, First Marines Company in Basabad, Helmand Province on March 9. Last year was the deadliest yet for civilians in the Afghan war with a 15 percent jump in the death toll, the UN said in a report March 9. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images)

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Afghan girls carry bread on their heads on a street in Kabul February 3, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

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A boy cries after breathing in tear gas thrown by national policemen in a provisional camp for earthquake victims during clashes with demonstrators in downtown Port-au-Prince February 7, 2011. Around 200 protesters demanding that Haiti's outgoing President Rene Preval leave office immediately set up burning barricades on Monday and threw stones at police and U.N. peacekeepers in the capital Port-au-Prince, witnesses said. REUTERS/St-Felix Evens

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A child performer in traditional costumes eats bread as they rehearse for the upcoming Lantern Festival at a park in Taiyuan, Shanxi province February 11, 2011. The lantern festival marks the last day of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and falls February 17 this year. REUTERS/Stringer

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Children attend a community class for mine and unexploded ordnance awareness organized by the Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation, on the outskirts of Kabul on March 23. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

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Children play at an electricity pylon in Jakarta, February 11, 2011. REUTERS/Beawiharta

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A boy who fled the unrest in Tunisia is helped by the Italian police after arriving at the southern Italian island of Lampedusa March 24, 2011. Almost 15,000 people have landed in Lampedusa since the beginning of the year, according to Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, exacerbating Italian fears that the upheavals in North Africa could unleash a wave of clandestine arrivals. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

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Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters Afghan children stand together near the town of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Oct. 24.

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A child steps out of an entrance used to prevent cold air from getting into a market in Beijing, China. (March 21, 2011) (Andy Wong/Associated Press

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Yemeni girls display their hands during a demonstration in Taiz, Yemen, April 14, 2011. Arabic reads: " Leave". (Hani Mohammed/Associated Press

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Children play cricket on the railway tracks on March 10, 2011 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. (Tom Shaw/Getty Images)

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A Tunisian girl waits for her father to cross the border into Tunisia at the border crossing of Ras Jdir after fleeing unrest in Libya on Feb. 23. Thousands of Tunisians have been fleeing Libya after a bloody crackdown on protests against the rule of Moammar Khadafy. At least 30,000 Tunisians had been living in Libya, and officials fear they could become targets because of Tunisia's role in inspiring uprisings across the Arab world. Tunisia's authoritarian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, was overthrown in January. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

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Children play on a swing outside the Karti Sakhi Shrine in Kabul as part of the celebrations at the start of Nowruz. Police and military were on high alert ahead of a planned new year announcement by President Hamid Karzai of plans for a gradual transfer of responsibilities from foreign troops to Afghan security forces. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images) Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA

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Seven-year-old Gagan Kaur Mann looks on as she has her turban tied by her father during a turban competition in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada on Sunday. Prizes were awarded for the biggest turban, best tying style and longest braid at the 9th annual event which organizers say is the largest in North America. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)

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Aishya, an Afghan girl, watches a Nowruz ceremony at the Sakhi Shrine from a mountaintop near Kabul. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

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A Sudanese boy near his suitcases as he waits at the Libyan side of the Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir on March 2. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

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Children take part in the water splashing rite during Thai New Year celebrations in Prachinburi, east of Bangkok, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. AP / Wason Wanichakorn

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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Afghan children with sheep walk through a path covered with fallen leaves in Panjwai district, Afghanistan's Kandahar province, on Friday, Nov. 26.

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A Somali refugee girl bites her fingers at Ifo camp near Dadaab, northeastern Kenya . (Reuters/Radu Sigheti .

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Shi Tou / Reuters A girl leads as pupils dance to Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" during a daily exercise routine at a primary school in Wushan county, Chongqing municipality, China on April 14. A total of 725 pupils in the school dance to the Michael Jackson hit song every morning as a routine exercise program between classes, according to local media.

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John Moore / Getty Images - Hoor Hussain, 6, holds a poster with other anti-government protesters at the Pearl roundabout on Feb. 21 in Manama, Bahrain. Demonstrators continue to fill the square in a daily protest while opposition leaders hold talks with the government on the weeklong uprising.

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Sebastian Scheiner / AP A Palestinian boy rides his bicycle outside the fenced-in house of the al-Ghirayim family on Feb. 9.

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How Hwee Young / EPA A Chinese boy dressed up in the costume of the Qing dynasty emperor poses for photos on a mock throne in Beijing on Feb. 16. China's one child policy has produced many 'little emperors and empresses'.

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Masai Children

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Ahmad Massoud / AP Children peep out of their tent as they watch others play during snowfall in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 11.

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Mai, 4-2009 - , one of the few who survived the massacre of Samouni family in Gaza City, Zaytoun quarter. Around 29 of her family members killed and ten other wounded. According to the family, Israeli soldiers gathered them in one house then hit them by 3 artillery shells. Those who still alive suffer from severe psychological problems and traumas.

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Oded Balility / AP - Children take cover in a classroom during an air raid drill at Gordon school in Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Air raid sirens have sounded across Israel as part of a massive drill. Israel is practicing its response to a widespread rocket attack all over the country.

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Altaf Qadri / AP A young Indian girl looks on as her father carries her in village Kosi some 111 miles from Patna, India, on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011.

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Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters - A girl covers herself on a cold morning as she begs for alms from pilgrims on a beach at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata, Jan. 13. Hindu monks and pilgrims are making an annual trip to Sagar Island for a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal on Jan. 14 for the one-day festival of Makar Sankranti.

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Mario Tama / Getty Images – Martina Raymond (R), 5, stands in front of her family tent with neighbor Revdania Henry, 4, in a makeshift camp at the Petionville golf club on Jan. 11, 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. According to UNICEF, over half of the four million children in Haiti still do not attend school. In addition to educational difficulties, Haiti's children also suffer from unequal access to basic water, health care and sanitation. January 12, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people.

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Five-year-old Libyan boy Mohammed Achmed is treated by a doctor in the Jalaa hospital in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Mohammed received bullet wounds to his chest early Saturday as fighting broke out in Benghazi. He was with his mother who also received bullet wounds. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

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Erik De Castro / Reuters A girl jumps over a string made of rubber bands in a street game called "Chinese Garter" in Navotas, Metro Manila Dec. 9. The game involves participants trying to jump over a string of rubber bands or garter, which is held higher as the game progresses.

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Ammar Awad / Reuters - Israeli police detain 12-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Daana on suspicion of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Dec. 26.2010

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A girl with her mother at a weekly meeting on maternal and child health. According to statistics from the UN in 2008 in Afghanistan from 1000 children up to five years did not survive 257 (compared with 260 in 1990). In India the figure is 69 deaths per 1000 children, whereas in the UK five years die of 6 out of 1000 newborns.

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Elementary school children crouch under their desks at their school in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture on April 12, as a powerful aftershock hits northern Japan. Jiji Press via AFP - Getty Images

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Palestinian boys find their toys among rubble of their just demolished home - July 31, 2010

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Orphaned kids from Sierra Leone

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Demotix Images - Hundreds of Israelis and migrant worker protest against an Israeli government plan to deport roughly 400 children of migrant workers. Tel Aviv, Israel. 04/03/2011.

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