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Thousands of children work in India's cotton fields
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Thousands of children work in India's cotton fields

 

Child labour linked to pay for cotton seed

Low pay to Indian cotton farmers by seed companies is leading farmers to use child labour, a recent study revealed...
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Feature -- Celebrating the 2005 Award


 
 
Cecilia with medal
©Alex Lloyd/Anti-Slavery International
Cecilia with the 2005
Anti-Slavery Award
 

Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, founding President and Executive Director of the Visayan Forum Foundation, received the 2005 Anti-Slavery Award on 29 November for her outstanding work to protect migrant workers, particularly child domestics, in the Philippines and the surrounding region...
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Voice from the field

 

 
 
portrait of James Aguer
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James Aguer
 

Between 1986 and 2002, thousands of people were abducted and enslaved in Sudan. In November, James Aguer, Chairperson of the Dinka Chiefs Committee, visited Anti-Slavery International and told Africa Programme Officer Asim Turkawi about the latest challenges for securing their release and returning them home...
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