Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot. Many in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia still labour in the heat.
Heat is a tool of the trade for blacksmith Murad Haddad in the city of Idlib in northwest Syria.
As he strikes the glowing iron with his hammer, a tattoo on his forearm states categorically that"My life is painful". "The heat is killing us. I have six kids, and I can hardly look after them. But if I don't work, I can't make ends meet."Maoula al-Tai is 30 and delivers takeaway food in Baghdad where he roams the city on a backfiring moped.
"I get up at four in the morning and get my basket ready as well as breakfast for my children," she said."We start work really early, planning to be home again once the temperature gets too hot."Backbreaking labour in Iraq
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