Faces of modern China

This week, The Guardian is running a series of articles and videos giving a ‘portrait’ of modern China.  This coincides with the newspaper’s new trial to offer selected Guardian articles in Chinese.
On day one, we see a video of the experiences of one migrant worker forced to return from Shenzhen to her parents’ farm [...]

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Child Labour in the Egyptian Cotton Industry

In last Sunday’s Observer Magazine’s Special Issue on The Ethical Awards 2008 there was a revealing and well written article on Child Labour in the Egyptian cotton industry.There are an estimated 2.7 million children working in Egypt, the majority, up to 1 million young workers, are in working in agriculture.
According to the article, children [...]

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