Seven-year-old Sila risks life and limb as a child jockey to provide for his family on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia.
Seven-year-old Sila is a child jockey supporting his family financially on the remote island of Sumbawa, Indonesia.
With the high unemployment rate on Sumbawa, Sila's parents no longer work because the money their young son earns takes care of the whole family.
Each race poses an enormous risk to Sila and the other young jockeys who spend up to 10 days competing in several traditional horse racing tournaments each year. Injuries are common, deaths occur, and Sila is one of the most in-demand jockeys of all the young riders.
We visit a cooking school in Vietnam that offers disadvantaged teenagers a pathway out of poverty.
Vietnam is famous for its delicious food.
But at a cooking school in Hanoi, the focus is on more than filling stomachs.
For the teenagers who attend KOTO, an internationally recognised hospitality boarding school in the Vietnamese capital, the kitchen offers a path out of poverty - one dish at a time.
"My parents both passed away at a very young age," says Duong, who grew up in Vietnam's rural heartland. "I can't afford to study, or even to live, so I decided to apply to KOTO."
Nepal's orphanages attract donations from around the world, but some are exploiting children for profit.
In the remote villages scattered throughout the Himalayas, opportunities for children are rare. So when an aunt offered to take 10-year-old Devi to the bustling capital, Kathmandu, to attend school, her mother readily agreed.
What awaited Devi was not the opportunity of a lifetime, but misery and despair.
Her aunt handed her over to an illegal orphanage. Devi had become one of Nepal's fake orphans.
Thousands of children go missing or are abandoned each year in Pakistan. But one charity is determined to save them.
Every year in Pakistan, thousands of children go missing or are abandoned on the streets of Karachi. Some are found dead in the streets amid piles of rubbish.
"Some days we pick up people that have been shot to death. Other days, people that have been killed in road accidents or in derailed trains," says Achgar, a paramedic in Karachi, one of the world's most violent cities.
What happens to children in China when their parents go to prison?
They are the children of criminals.
Their parents are in Chinese prisons, some serving life sentences for horrific crimes. With no one to care for them and nowhere to go, Sun Village, a shelter in Beijing, takes them in.
Run by a former prison officer, Sun Village is helping raise China's most vulnerable young people - teaching them to cook and clean, and helping them deal with their trauma.
A look at the slums of Yangon and how families are crippled by high-interest loans as others profit from their despair.
With its gleaming new shopping malls and high-rise apartment blocks, Yangon has become the symbol of Myanmar's rapid economic growth. Yet in its poorest neighbourhoods, 85 percent of households are borrowing money from loan sharks, just to cover their basic living expenses.
While the loans may rescue them from an immediate financial emergency, the interest rates - which range from five percent daily to 60 percent monthly - trap borrowers in a perpetual cycle of debt. As families struggle to make their repayments, many send their children out to work.
Thousands of children go missing or are abandoned each year in Pakistan. But one charity is determined to save them.
Every year in Pakistan, thousands of children go missing or are abandoned on the streets of Karachi. Some are found dead in the streets amid piles of rubbish.
"Some days we pick up people that have been shot to death. Other days, people that have been killed in road accidents or in derailed trains," says Achgar, a paramedic in Karachi, one of the world's most violent cities.
"But the most difficult is when we pick up innocent babies … that's unbearable," says Achgar, recalling how he recently picked up the body of a newborn at 6am. He suspects the baby was killed by its own parents.
What happens to children in China when their parents go to prison?
They are the children of criminals.
Their parents are in Chinese prisons, some serving life sentences for horrific crimes. With no one to care for them and nowhere to go, Sun Village, a shelter in Beijing, takes them in.
Run by a former prison officer, Sun Village is helping raise China's most vulnerable young people - teaching them to cook and clean, and helping them deal with their trauma.
A former slave fights for the rights of girls sold into slavery while pursuing her own dream of becoming a lawyer.
Urmila Chaudhary wants to change Nepal. The 23-year-old woman fights against centuries-old social structures with one goal: to end child slavery in her country.
At the age of six, Urmila's family sold her to become a household slave, or kamlari, in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu. Every year, her parents received money from her enslavers, for whom Urmila had to work up to 15 hours every day.
Urmila was freed at age 17. Now, she is on a quest for justice. Together with her fellow campaigners, she frees girls from captivity, makes demands of the prime minister to end slavery, holds press conferences and travels internationally.
Millions of China's children are growing up without their parents. We look at the struggles of a generation left behind.
A generation of rural Chinese children is growing up without their parents. They've been left behind, and are suffering deeply.
Parents are leaving villages and towns for big city factory jobs, in the hope of a better future. Their kids are left in the care of grandparents or boarding schools, or left to fend for themselves.
A few local governments and NGOs are trying to fill the parental void, but some fear that, without major changes, the children could be lost - destined to a life of struggle with no familial support.
101 East explores why over 300 Australian children are abducted by a parent and taken overseas every year.
Five years ago, Kennedy Kembo arrived home to find his daughter missing. His wife had secretly taken her to Indonesia.
But Indonesia has not signed The Hague Convention, meaning there is little Australian authorities can do to bring abducted children home.
Australia has the highest rate per capita of international parental child abductions in the world, averaging two a week.
But for Kennedy and many other parents, there is hope. He has hired private investigators that specialise in retrieving kidnapped children. After months of surveillance, they could be close to making a recovery.
101 East enters the world of Sabah's stateless children, who spend their lives on the run from authorities.
When security forces roll into town, people run in all directions, desperate to escape. In their haste, they knock over trays of fish for sale at the local market.
It is another raid by authorities seeking to flush out hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants in the Malaysian state of Sabah.
Hiding in the shadows are tiny figures, the children of migrants who are growing up stateless. Born in Malaysia but citizens of no country, they cannot access public schools or healthcare.
They are at constant risk of being detained and deported. With their families struggling to earn enough to feed them, some resort to sniffing glue to stave off hunger.
This year's World Day Against Child Labour is focusing on children working in supply chains.
Almost one in 10 children wakes up each morning and goes to work. These children slave away in factories and fields, and as maids and sex workers.
United Nations declarations specifically guarantee the rights of a child to be protected from economic exploitation. But vague laws, or sometimes a complete lack of legislation, mean that millions of children find themselves at work when they should be at school - often in hazardous conditions.
At least 168 million children around the world work, with more than half of them in dangerous conditions, according to the International Labour Organization.
Almost 80 million children are working in the Asia-Pacific region. That's equivalent to the entire population of Turkey. And one in five children in Sub-Saharan Africa has a job. That's almost 60 million children.
The impact of the Syrian civil war seen through the eyes of refugee children at risk of becoming a lost generation.pact of the Syrian civil war seen through the eyes of refugee children at risk of becoming a lost generation. In March 2011, protests broke out in Syria which have led to arguably the worst refugee crisis since World War Two. While millions of the Syrians affected by the uprising remain internally displaced, the majority have fled the country, seeking refuge in neighbouring Jordan and Lebanon.
According to official figures from UNICEF, children currently account for just over half of the total number of refugees. These children are now at the real risk of becoming a 'lost generation'
"If we don't provide them with education, they're lost. This is the generation that's going to re-build their country in a few years. They are the future. The children feel that they can't dream, that they can't hope. They are the future generation who are supposed to re-build. The children feel their horizons and hopes are limited," says Soha Bsat El Boustany, UNICEF, Lebanon.
