Bangladesh is the second world’s largest skin country. A quarter of the leather workers in the country are children, according to a study of the University of Sussex. These young men only pay 35 euros a month, come in contact with chemicals and working skin with sharp tools, unprotected, 10 hours a day. Many of them have lost one or both parents and are forced to accept these working conditions to survive or help their families. This is, despite the fact that it is in Bangladesh illegally for children under the age of 14, and for those under the age of 18 to have dangerous jobs. About 90 percent of tanker workers in Bangladesh dies before he has been 50, according to the WHO report. France 24 Lisa Gamonet, cited by Kumari, Nabeel Ahmed and Shehab Sumon.
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