Picture Gallery
The pictures on this site may – unless stated otherwise next to the picture – be used free of charge in any reports on XertifiX e.V. or the XertifiX label, provided that complete reference is made to the copyright next to the picture or at least on the same printed page. For image files with higher, printable resolution please contact us.
If you use any of the pictures, please send us a copy of your publication.
The copyright reference must, unless stated otherwise, be:
Picture: Benjamin Pütter / AGEH – Misereor
Any other uses must be authorized by XertifiX e.V. in advance. Unauthorized use of pictures will be persecuted and a fee of five times the fee customary in the market (based on the current fee list of the Mittelstandsgemeinschaft Foto-Marketing (MFM)) will become due.
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Photo No. 18
During inspections of five export granite quarries (Decola) in Tamil Nadui n November 2006, XertifiX India found child labourers in three export quarries. They were doing heaviest labour on drilling machines. Copyright: Sebastian Bolesch. Picture may only be used with written authorization of the author and for a fee. High resolution image file available. |
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Photo No. 17
During inspections of five export granite quarries (Decola) in Tamil Nadui n November 2006, XertifiX India found child labourers in three export quarries. They were doing heaviest labour on drilling machines. Copyright: Sebastian Bolesch. Picture may only be used with written authorization of the author and for a fee. High resolution image file available. |
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Photo No. 16
During inspections of five export granite quarries (Decola) in Tamil Nadui n November 2006, XertifiX India found child labourers in three export quarries. They were doing heaviest labour on drilling machines. Copyright: Sebastian Bolesch. Picture may only be used with written authorization of the author and for a fee. High resolution image file available. |
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Photo No. 15
During inspections of five export granite quarries (Decola) in Tamil Nadui n November 2006, XertifiX India found child labourers in three export quarries. They were doing heaviest labour on drilling machines. |
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Photo No. 01
This boy works off his parents’ debts in an export quarry in South India. This form of labour is called bonded labour, and it is a modern form of slavery. The boy’s parents live several hundreds of kilometres away. He works six days a week from morning till night and has never had the opportunity to go to school. |
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Photo No. 02
This boy works off his parents’ debts in an export quarry in South India. This form of labour is called bonded labour, and it is a modern form of slavery. The boy’s parents live several hundreds of kilometres away. He works six days a week from morning till night and has never had the opportunity to go to school. |
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Photo No. 03
These boys also work in a quarry that produces granite for the European market. They do not have the opportunity to go to school either. |
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Photo No. 04
In these straw huts the quarry worker families live on the edge of the quarries. |
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Photo No. 09
In these straw huts the quarry worker families live on the edge of the quarries. |
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Photo No. 05
This picture shows children producing gravel for road and building construction in India. They start working in their earliest childhood without any opportunity of ever learning anything but beating stones. |
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Photo No. 11
This picture shows children producing gravel for road and building construction in India. They start working in their earliest childhood without any opportunity of ever learning anything but beating stones. |
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Photo No. 06
This picture shows children producing gravel for road and building construction in India. They start working in their earliest childhood without any opportunity of ever learning anything but beating stones. |
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Photo No. 07
In local quarries in Rajasthan, mothers often have to start working again only one week after the birth of a child. In order to prevent the babies from keeping the mothers from work, they are given opium by the quarry operators. |
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Photo No. 08
In sandstone quarries in Rajasthan, child labour is nothing unusual either. |
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Photo No. 12
When the workers compress black powder for blasts, it can easily ignite and blow up a worker’s hand. weg. |
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Photo No. 13
Hand injuries and mutilations are very frequent. Especially when working at night, it can happen that overtired workers knock off their own fingers. |
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Photo No. 14
Hand injuries and mutilations are very frequent. Especially when working at night, it can happen that overtired workers knock off their own fingers. |
