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By Vincent Van Ross
In a country like India where there is rampant unemployment and underemployment amongst the adults, what is it that encourages child labour? It beats logic. That is the gist of what Sujata Madhok, chairperson of the Delhi Union...
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Let us see all that the country has done to eradicate child labour.
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Javier Lozano Alarcon, Mexican Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, speaks during the 97th session of the International Labor Organization (ILO) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, June 9, 2008.
