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  • This year, the Anjos e Guerreiros [pt] blog posted an article about flagrant slave labour and the exploitation of child-labour on a lemon farm in Cabreúva Municipality, 70 kilometres from São Paulo City.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery 2009

  • And if you are going to say "Well, I haven't got children, so it doesn't affect me!" then think about the comfortable people in the 19th century who said much the same when Lord Shaftesbury was trying to reform the cruel child-labour laws.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Joanna Bogle 2009

  • And if you are going to say "Well, I haven't got children, so it doesn't affect me!" then think about the comfortable people in the 19th century who said much the same when Lord Shaftesbury was trying to reform the cruel child-labour laws.

    The Government... Joanna Bogle 2009

  • In fact, Bihar is the first state to recognize the need for the proper rehabilitation of rescued child-labour from the clutched of various employers and take proper and concrete steps in this direction.

    In India, a State Starts to Heed Child Labor Laws 2008

  • The Indian government found to their dismay that bringing in adequate legislature measures to curb child-labour may be easy but implementing them is somewhat a different and difficult task as it needs a strong will power from the state government to take steps towards it.

    In India, a State Starts to Heed Child Labor Laws 2008

  • He added that most of them were forced by circumstanes to indulge in the worst forms of child-labour due to lost families and lack of protection, which is the foundation of self-reliance.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • One cannot blame Dr. MACDONALD for his indignation at the miseries of child-labour, but here it is perhaps out of place.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920 Various

  • On the steps of a mansion on an icy night you will find a bare-footed child asleep, with its bundle of papers in its arms ... child-labour costs so little that it may be well employed, every evening, to sell tenpenny-worth of papers, of which the poor boy will receive a penny, or

    The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

  • Thus the _Saturday Review_, in a passage already quoted, solemnly, openly and unforgettably declares the secret wishes of the militarists; and we may be surprised to consider how many safeguards of democracy, how many rights of free thought and free speech, how many of the precarious limitations of sweating and child-labour and wage-slavery have been quietly suppressed since the beginning of the war.

    The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade John Mavrogordato

  • Louisiana, is at present waging a strong fight against the attempt to exempt "first-class" theatres from the child-labour law.

    A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. Eugene A. Hecker

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