AMMAN — Two weeks ago, Manal, 27, dressed in a black robe, walked slowly in a crowd of several hundred demonstrators — mostly men — carrying children, waving Jordanian flags or holding up homemade protest signs near the prime minister’s office.

This was her first public protest, said Manal, who declined to give her last name for fear of angering conservative members of her family. “I’m here to demand reforms,” she said. “I’m here to say enough. Enough corruption. Enough with the high prices. Enough of being silent.”

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Even though children under sixteen are prohibited from working, some estimates put the number of children working in Jordan at 250,000. A deteriorating economic situation, apathy and no clear, operative government strategy is forcing more and more children onto the street as vendors and beggars.View PDF