In the desert outside the holy city of Najaf, young children work in a brick factory. Their wages help to buy food: Iraqi government salaries dropped from $1000 to $3 in 1991.
Iraq used to have the highest educational standards in the Arab world. Now children lack pencils and schoolbooks, and their teachers don't turn up to work, because they can't afford to.
Palestinian orphan children 'chanting' proIraq - antiIsrael slogans. Iraqi people love children, they dress for parties like adults - full make-up for girls.