Child Labour in the Egyptian Cotton Industry
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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 [More…]