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10 Sep 2009

Author:
Marcy Nicholson, Reuters

Child, forced labor behind many products: study

Children and forced laborers are mining gold, sewing clothing and harvesting cocoa around the world, and India is the source for the biggest number of products made by these workers, a U.S. government report said on Thursday. The Department of Labor for the first time released a list of goods produced by child or forced labor in foreign countries...[It] looked at 122 products in 58 countries...Myanmar was noted the most often for forced labor for other products like rice, sugar cane and rubber...

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