Lives of Children Across the Globe | World View |Axisoflogic.com

At a school in rural southwest Uganda, children in uniforms pray earnestly in the early morning before classes commence.

A boy in Nakhon si Thammarat, South Thailand, rests his weary head on a buffalo in the mists of the early morning.

Photographer Jian Seng Soh, who captured this image in Kyoto, Japan, wrote of it: 'Before I got off the bus at the next station, I gave my seat to this young elementary student with heavy bags and she immediately fell asleep'

A tired young student poses at a school near Sidone in Lebanon, where around a million Syrian refugees are supported by international organizations.

A young boy pictured clutching two guns in the Honduran city of Rivera Hernandez, where according to the photographer, five warring gangs result in three dead bodies a day.

In Edinburgh, Scotland, boys smoke cigarettes in a deprived area with high rates of unemployment, drug abuse and gang activity.

In Denmark, 28 schoolchildren have a pillow fight at the institute of controversial Danish therapist Carl-Mar Moller, where they are encouraged to play freely without rules

Photographer Germano Miele writes of this image, which he took in the small village in Benin: 'It's very common, when you leave the big cities to go discovering little villages, to be received like an old friend coming back home with amazing and unforgettable smiles and calling me "Yovo" (white man in Fon, the local language). This is the pure Africa I really love'

For nearly ten months, members of the Native American Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their allies have been camped here in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing their land and water. Pictured here, 12-year-old Jesse Jaso enters their Unity Teepee, which has been signed by camp supporters from all over North America and the rest of the world.

Syrian refugee children shelter under plastic to protect themselves from the rain during transportation from a Turkish camp.

In Senegal, a young girl clings to the edge of a bus window with a strained expression on her face as the photographer shoots from above.

A religious celebration at a Sikh temple in the suburb of Parma, Italy

In the jungle of Sumatra Barat, Indonesia, children share a joke with an elder of the Mentawai Tribe on Mentawai Island

A Bedouin boy in Oman poses with his father's rifle. 'He is still too young to use it,' explains photographer Mark Languido Vicente, 'but here, he is tasked to hold it in a safe position while his father receives guests'

a small child in Togo, West Africa, with fresh wounds which will turn into scars, typical markings of the Soma tribe.

Taha Sirhan (right), 11, carries the Iraqi flag through burned out oil fields in the city of Qayyarah south east of Mosul in Iraq. His father was killed by ISIS during their occupation because he was working for the Iraqi police.

In GouLingYu, Gansu province, this girl is just one of 61million 'left-behind' children in China's rural areas whose parents have left them to move into the city. This girl says her mother 'ran away' from her when she was six months old.

A nine-year-old girl called Syuzanna takes shelter in the shell of a dilapidated car outside the abandoned building she lives in, in Gymri, Armenia, where the poverty rate is 47 per cent.

In Mumbai, India, a little girl undergoes a Navjote, a ceremony similar to baptism which welcomes her into the Zoroastrian religion - one of the oldest on Earth. It means she'll never be allowed to marry outside of it.

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, fashion designer Nassiba, who is pictured playing with her son, states: 'Society constrains the divorcee. What you can or can't do, remains under the control of others. As an independent single mother, I've made peace with the sacrifices I've had to make, but also managed to find happiness on my own'

When photographer Mohamed Roushdy El dor took this portrait in Cairo, Egypt, he asked the sad boy to smile, but he said he 'couldn't'.

This photo was taken at a cemetery in Manila, the Philippines, where a community of homeless people live, including this child who has found a balloon to play with among the unclaimed bones and bodies.

These images have all been shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. In Guizhou, China, this little boy's parents are busy harvesting as his 90-year-old grandmother takes a quick break to enjoy a tender moment with him.