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NGO says half a million Indian children work in cotton fields

24/07/2015

A Dutch non-government organisation, the India Committee of the Netherlands (LIW), has said in a new report that India’s cotton growing industry employs almost half a million children, that is young people up to the age of 18. It adds that around 200,000 of these children are under 14 years of age. Most of these children have dropped out of...

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