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MNCs No Sweatshop for Third World Children
Oct 14 2005, Bhawana Negi

If 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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