Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is embroiled in a child labour scandal in the United States, after children as young as five were found working on a farm that supplies blueberries to the company.

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Speaking at a workshop in Lahore, a Unicef expert placed the number of child workers in Pakistan at three million. Other sources have been quoting higher figures.

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Children in Malawi who are forced to work as tobacco pickers are exposed to nicotine poisoning equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes a day, an investigation has found.

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Value clothes retailer Primark is facing a protest outside its Oxford Street store over claims that some of its clothes were made in India using child labour.

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Cambodian school children have taken to the streets to mark World Against Child Labour Day, calling for parents to send their kids to school, rather than forcing them to work.

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An investigation by The Observer into Britain's growing upmarket cotton market has uncovered children as young as seven working on Nile Valley plantations that provide cotton to the UK.

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Thousands of children in southwest China have been sold into slavery like "cabbages", to work as labourers in more prosperous areas such as the booming southern province of Guangdong, a newspaper said on Tuesday.

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Sweatshops and forced child labor are a growing problem, especially in the clothing and textiles industry. In general, almost 75 percent of the price of a garment made in a sweatshop goes into the pockets of the manufacturer and retailer.

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It's 8 am on Etukuru Road, a hub of about 120 cotton-ginning factories in Guntur city.

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Despite an international outcry in 2000 over child exploitation on West African cocoa farms, and ambitious efforts by governments since then to regulate the industry, very little has changed for an estimated 284,000 child labourers, according to campaign groups.

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What is child labor?

What is child labour: Any child under the age specified by law worldwide works full time, mentally or physically to earn for own survival or adding to family income, that interrupts child's social development and education is called "child labour".

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SMALL VOICES ECHO ACROSS THE GLOBE Inspired by a 12 year old activist who set up Free the Children so that youth could help youth worldwide from child labour, child prostitution, lack of education and opportunities.

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Fashion chain Gap has withdrawn from sale children's clothing allegedly made using forced child labour in India. A 10-year-old boy was filmed making clothes for Gap shops in the US and Europe as part of an investigation by the UK's Observer newspaper.

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A friend of mine, Delphine Brun, sent me this photo she took down south in Nias. It is of children who hammer rocks to turn it into gravel. They spend about a month hammering rocks to fill one truckload, and get about between Rp.200,000 to 480,000 (or USD20-48) for the pleasure.

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The summer holidays kicked off with the news that a Sunderland school has opened a simulated call centre in which pupils can get half a GCSE by selling mobile phones and answering complaints from computer generated customers.

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This is what all the people complaining about institutions like the Kumari don't understand. The Kumaris have it very, very good compared to an awful lot of Nepali children.

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It has made for horrifying viewing on Chinese state television - hundreds of child slaves beaten with shovels, whipped by thug overseers, guarded in concentration camp-like conditions by vicious dogs, sores festering on their bodies as they toiled without end in a brick factory i …

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Producers of cut flowers in developing countries are notorious for providing low wages, toxic working conditions and using child labor. In Germany, fair trade flowers are an increasingly popular way to change that.

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British chocoholics may have unwittingly helped fund an African conflict, with an estimated $120m (£60m) from the cocoa trade being siphoned off into war chests in Ivory Coast, according to a report released today.

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Child labor (roadside entertainers)

This video clip was taken in summer hot of 40 degree Celsius from the road side of New Delhi, India. The video shows how these children work hard to entertain public for mere 1 cent to 5 cents in busy traffic roads of urban New Delhi.

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The United Nation's children fund, popularly known as UNICEF, while lending support to the government decision of banning child labour, had come out with its own anti-child labour campaign. Eight-year-old Choonam Kumari alias Chuniya, from northern Indian state of Bihar and …

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The movie Blood Diamonds has sparked a controversy. Think purchasing a diamond is an ethical dilemma? You don't know the half of it. A host of common consumer items helps fuel conflict, ruins the environment, and relies on child labor.Here is a list , guaranteed to surprise.

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Sun, sweat and toil mark Children's Day for this street child in Kolkata, who, like millions of others, works to support his family. November 14 is just another day.

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More than half of Cambodian children aged under 14 are being put to work, forcing them out of school and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in the nation, the UN Children's Fund said.

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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) says an end to child labour is within reach. It says it has recorded a drop in child labour for the first time since its records began in the early 1990s. ILO Asia-Pacific deputy director Lin Lean Lim says the worst forms of child expl

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