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  Burkina Faso counts cost of child labour | News24

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  Ouagadougou - Covered in dust and without protective kit, two seven-year-old boys gather stones in cups. One of them, standing in front of a pile of …

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  Stop Child Labor – Sign the Pledge! | UNICEF USA

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  ►Sign the pledge to help stop child labor at http://www.unicefusa.org/StopChildLaborTrapped in child labor, like 168 million other children worldwide, Halima...

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  How Did UNICEF Help Halima Get Her Childhood Back?

  unicefusa.org - Malcolm G. Farley

  Americans love chocolate. But how is it made? And who makes it? Trapped in child labor, like 168 million other children worldwide, Halima, a 10-year …

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  How Bolivia's Children Are Being Exploited by a Failing Labor Law

  TIME - Peter Lykke Lind / La Paz

  Hector Cornorin started working full time when he was seven years old. He used to sell teddy bears on the streets of the Bolivian capital La Paz, mostly to couples. ”Romantic, you know,” he says. Now aged 20, Cornorin is a student of international business and an adviser to UNATSBO, the children’s …

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  Was Your Easter Chocolate Made with Child Labor?

  Fortune - Brian O'Keefe

  Here’s a question to ponder while munching on chocolate this Easter: Was the cocoa in your candy farmed in an ethical and sustainable way? For the …

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  Bangladeshi organisation offers a lesson on ending child labour

  The Guardian - Anna Leach in Dhaka

  A grassroots NGO in Dhaka is rising to the challenge of getting Bangladesh’s 4.7m child workers out of hazardous workplaces and in to schools The small space is set up to look like a classroom. Its corrugated iron walls are hung with educational charts – illustrated letters of the alphabet and a map …