Polluted Playgrounds

Children play in polluted landfills, waters, and other toxic environments.

A girl plays with plastic glasses in a garbage dump in a poor slum of Greater Buenos Aires, August 16, 2002. With official unemployment at a record 21.5 percent after a crippling recession forced a devastating public debt default and currency devaluation in a country that, according to private estimates, has the capacity to feed 300 million people, about one out of every four children do not have enough to eat. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian

A child makes his way through a pile of garbage in a canal in Mumbai May 20, 2008. The city, which dreams of becoming a global financial centre, spends about 1 billion rupees ($25 million) each year on bracing itself for monsoon downpours, the municipal authority said. Picture taken May 20, 2008. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe (INDIA)

Girls play in a deserted boat on a dry lake caused by a lack of water upstream in Zhengzhou, Henan province February 12, 2009. Dry weather will continue in China's major wheat producing regions, but reservoirs have enough water to meet demand in the peak period and timely irrigation could reduce the damage, a senior drought relief official said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Nir Elias (CHINA)

A boy jumps into a polluted river after school at Pluit dam in Jakarta June 5, 2009. REUTERS/Beawiharta (IREUTERS/BeawihartaDONESIA)

Children play on the streets of Angola's capital Luanda July 2, 2006. The Angolan government has been accused of reacting slowly to a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 2,000 people. Many of the deaths occurred in slums that lack basic sanitation. Picture taken July 2, 2006. REUTERS/Wayne Conradie (ANGOLA)

A boy swims in the polluted waters of the river Sabarmati to dive for offerings thrown in by worshippers in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad August 20, 2010. In recent years, the religious festivals and customs in India have come under increasing scrutiny as public awareness of environmental issues grows. REUTERS/Amit Dave (INDIA)

Children play in flood water as a man casts his fishing net in an area affected by floods in Thailand's southern Pattani province November 2, 2010. Heavy rains drenched the main rubber growing region in Thailand on Tuesday, flooding commercial hub Hat Yai, while 12,000 people were evacuated from bordering regions in Malaysia. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom (THAILAND)

A boy swims in the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province July 15, 2011. Picture taken July 15, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA)

Children walk on a burned area of Chapada dos Guimaraes in midwesten Brazil, August 29, 2010. Dry weather, drought and heat has been causing fires across the country and put about 70 percent of the country at risk of fires. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes (BRAZIL)

A boy rides on an improvised Banca made of styrofoam as he gets near crashing waves during high tide on a bay of Manila July 18, 2011. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES)

A girl swims outside houses affected by floods in Ayutthaya province, nearly 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok September 17, 2011. Monsoon rains, floods and mudslides in Thailand have killed at least 98 people since July, including a French tourist, authorities said on Friday. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND)

Three-year-old Sabir wears an old helmet on his head, which he found in a dumping ground, while playing in a Karachi slum, November 20, 2011. The United Nations' Universal Children's Day is observed across the globe in honor of children on November 20. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN )

Waste collector Dinesh Mukherjee, 11, watches his friend jump over a puddle of toxic liquid at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi November 10, 2011. Just a few kilometres from the impressive Akshardham temple, where Indian and foreign tourists flock to see the structure's sandstone and marble work, the 29-hectare, slum-surrounded Ghazipur landfill in east Delhi seems a world apart. Picture taken November 10, 2011. To match INDIA-RECYCLERS/ REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma (INDIA)