The report describes sexual abuse of children who herd livestock. They are a manic and aggressive lot, competing and cajoling and jabbering. The regulations, adopted in 2007 and last revised in 2012, allow those 14 and older to serve as apprentices and those 15 to 18 to perform "light work." He takes off from noon to 3 p.m. to attend school. Then he hustles to the taxi rank amid a cacophony of donkey carts, creaky old Toyotas, Afghan military vehicles brimming with gunmen and black SUVs ferrying warlords. They are a manic and aggressive lot, competing and cajoling and jabbering. Their hands are too clumsy. They prohibit children younger than 18 from work considered hazardous or dangerous to their health. Sami has been at the bakery since he was 10, when he rode a bus here from the northern countryside to assist his uncle, Yar Mohammed, the bakery owner, who himself began at age 8. The metal will become a decorative cake tray in Hekmat's swift and nimble hands. "These boys have small hands, quick hands for this delicate work," he says. "Billions of dollars have come to Afghanistan," he says, shouting to be heard over the din of customers and the kiln. He says he wore out his voice screaming at fares, an endeavor he began at age 6. Child labor is endemic in Afghanistan, despite vaguely written laws that prohibit children younger than 14 from working full time. He says he knows there are laws against child labor but that he hired Hekmat as a favor to the boy's impoverished father.