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Child Slaves May Be Making Your Chocolate According to the BBC, hundreds of thousands of children are being stolen from their parents, shipped to the Ivory Coast and sold as slaves to cocoa farms. Site has list of chocolate companies that ensure their cocoa doesn't come from slaveowners; links to media articles and organizations. http://www.radicalthought.org/ Child Labor in Pakistan Pakistan has recently passed laws greatly limiting child labor and indentured servitude, but those laws are universally ignored, and some 11 million children, aged four to fourteen, keep that country's factories operating, often working in brutal and squalid conditions. (Atlantic Monthly) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/pakistan/pakistan.ht m The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labour in India Article from Human Rights Watch. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/India3.htm Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations Report by Human Rights Watch examines child banana workers in Ecuador as the victims of serious human rights abuses. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/ecuador/ Child Workers in Nepal Site with extensive information on child labor in Nepal including a photo archive. http://www.cwin-nepal.org/ People's Institute of Rural Development Indian based campaign against child labour. http://education.vsnl.com/pird |
