A Burmese boy sorts coal into bags in Rangoon, Burma, Wednesday, October 9, 2008. The number of child laborers in Burma number perhaps in the hundreds of thousands. Burma signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1991, but the country’s military government has done little to stem the exploitation of child laborers. Burmese child labourers spend their days sifting through rubbish for recyclables, and they hunt the markets for damaged or discarded vegetables they can resell for a few kyat a piece. They are the waiters and dishwashers at tea shops, maids, and mechanics. They work on construction sites, in markets, fix motorcycle engines and work in light industry.