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World Day Against Child Labour – getting working children back to school, one-by-one
Tomorrow (12th June) is the World Day Against Child Labour, and hundreds of organisations around the world are marking the day with activities to raise awareness that Education is the right response against child labour. Impactt’s report, Progress not Perfection highlighted the increasing incidence of child labour. Over the last couple of years, we have found [...]
Child Labourers from Sichuan are “sold like vegetables” in Dongguan
Various media outlets in China including the Southern Metropolitan News, Xinua and Sina (links in Chinese) have been reporting that bonded child labourers have been found being ‘sold like vegetables’ in Shipai, Dongguan. The working conditions into which they were sold were horrific. The reports allege that: There are up to 750 bonded child workers [...]