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RSSIf one thinks that the Western companies hiring cheap child laborers of Third World are actually exploiting them, then one is altogether wrong at least if one goes by the survey conducted by Pew Center for the People and Press in 44 nations, covering...
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In a country like India where there is rampant unemployment and underemployment amongst the adults, what is it that encourages child labour? It...
made popular Sep 16 2008
China is all set to become the next economic giant who will display its extravagance in the forthcoming Beijing Olympic Games but there is a dark side of China plagued...
made popular Sep 14 2008
For more than 30 years prior to its ban, the fishing method muro-ami was commonly used in the Philippines. During its heyday, it was the most lucrative of fishing...
made popular May 1 2008
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Each day, 14-year-old Ali Abdel-Nasser works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Cairo, loading a donkey cart with new bricks to be taken to a nearby furnace to dry....
made popular Apr 4 2008
In India, poor children start working at a very young age. Some of the children work to help their families and at the same time, some families want their children to...
made popular Dec 29 2007
Every day there is news about children being exploited in some part of the world. Articles speak of kids being abused physically, verbally and even sexually. In...
made popular Dec 5 2007
The news that the global fashion company GAP has been indirectly involved in child labour while producing children’s clothing in India is hardly surprising. Local...
made popular Oct 29 2007
In a busy by-lane of a Mumbai suburb a small hut like structure is cramped up with more than twenty kids working on fake handbags, which fetch anything between Rs. 50...
made popular Oct 4 2007
China may have heading towards becoming the super power or largest economy in the entire world, but its exploitation of forced or slave labor, including children and...
made popular Jun 21 2007
The Ministry of Labor, Government of India had appointed a Committee on child labor in 1979 to examined various dimensions of child labor in different occupations....
made popular Apr 30 2007
Tiny hands are very important for shoe production, textiles, auto repair, agriculture and many other industries. This is because those tiny hands can easily polish and...
made popular Mar 28 2007
What can be the implications of exposing kids to meth or methamphetamine is still oracular as there is no relevant data available to draw out a conclusion. That is the...
made popular Jan 3 2007
A very strange terminology is coupled with the brand name World of Warcraft ‘Gold Farmers’, the characters that do nothing but farm money and high-value...
made popular Oct 10 2006
In the wake of the sensitive child labour issue in the country, the Indian government at last decided to take up some inflexible step. With the child labour law to be...
made popular Sep 11 2006
From the devastating Tsunami to the worst hit earthquakes, children around the world are affected the most by natural disasters. Figures accumulated by several child...
made popular Sep 9 2006
An outspoken man by nature, Aneel Ahmad was so taken in by the sad story of the street children that he decided to make one on the Pakistani Street Children.
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made popular Aug 19 2006
According to the latest findings of the Indian Centre for Development, Indian government has to eradicate 0.7 million child labourers annually to achieve the target by...
made popular Aug 16 2006
The Government of India has decided to completely ban employment of children aged below fourteen years anywhere. In how many days and at what extent it will be...
made popular Aug 3 2006
The poor families in Ghana region of Africa are so crippled due to low income that they send their child to work as labours.
This part of Africa is mainly inhabited...
made popular Jun 3 2006
Child Labor is the burning matter that is crippling the entire nation of Ghana. The developing partners has made it known that if something is not done soon to...
made popular Feb 17 2006
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