The US and EU wanted some discussion of issues such as child labour in the WTO.
Where, yes indeed, there are vile and horrific instances of child labour and slavery.
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The adventure started five years ago, during the International Conference in New Delhi on Child Labour.
To anyone who thinks of child labour as an unmitigated evil, this price looks worth paying.
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In cities, by contrast, the problems of poverty are compounded by violence, drugs, family breakdown and child labour.
Other countries, wishing to discourage the use of child labour, put a tariff on the developing country's goods.
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It is the first time in the world that has ever happened, except for chimney sweeps and child labour.
There will be a bit of pushback on that: surely our laws against child labour are what ended it?
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They want to export America's rules that protect workers against exploitation in various forms, including rules forbidding child labour.
Like soccer itself, getting rid of child labour is not a win-win game.
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Under the terms of its code of practice for suppliers, Primark prohibits the use of child labour in its manufacturing chain.
The raising of issues like child labour and the widening gap between rich and poor may further embarrass the Indian Government.
Which means that the only real way of getting rid of such child labour in India is by that country getting rich.
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Thankfully Imran was rescued by the Global March Against Child Labour.
The real damage done by child labour happens when the children have no education at all and that is more likely to happen in cities.
We are delighted that these balls were not produced using child labour or any other kind of exploitation and are proud to use them.
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Unicef says it used the photograph in its campaign to raise awareness about child labour, but it says Chunam is not a Unicef brand ambassador.
During those years a raft of legislation governing everything from child labour, working conditions in factories, the treatment of the poor, to public health and sanitation was passed.
The fate of other firms depends on a host of factors besides child labour, from the level of world demand to the strength of the rupee.
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The specific point that is being made in this piece is that child labour, child slavery in fact, still goes on in large numbers in India.
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Electronic companies, which can trace the origins of most of their materials, concede they cannot guarantee that their products are not tainted with conflict, slave or child labour.
Longest journeys can take 27 hours (Stats from Nov 20 Plan Int'l and World Education Assessment of Child Labour in Nepal) The majority of child labourers are trafficked internally.
In the Unicef poster, in which she appears smilingly in a yellow flowery frock, Chunam appeals "for no more child labour as this age is to read and keep growing".
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She also says there is a pressing need to monitor internal adoptions, formal or otherwise, as children can be subjected to child labour when sent to live with family members.
Supported by foreign charities, like Comic Relief in the UK, the group is trying to help raise awareness of the need to end child labour and the importance of childhood education.
The World Development Report discusses the problems of child labour and poor families' limited access to financial markets on the same page, yet it fails to make a connection between the two.
Pakistan has signed and ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits child labour, but officials argue that it's not easy to enforce the terms of the convention.
There is also a clear link between child labour and school attendance - students aged between 12 and 14 years who work showed lower rates of attendance than those who do not work.
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