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S Asia 1
Laborers pull an iron rope before separating a portion of a beached ship into scrap metal at a ship breaking yard near Karachi, Pakistan, in 2011. As many as 15,000 workers brave brutal conditions to earn as little as $4 a day tearing down ships at Gaddani beach on the coast of the Arabian Sea.
Credit: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters