End Child Labor in Cotton!
Author: ILRF | Posted by: septblessing17

Link: http://laborrights.org/stop-child-labor/cotton-campaign/end-child-labor-in-cotton

Thousands of children around the world are forced to pick cotton. In India, child workers in the cottonseed industry are often in a state of debt bondage and work at least nine hours a day. In Uzbekistan, one of the world’s largest exporters of cotton, as many as two million children are forced to leave school and pick cotton in order to meet government-imposed cotton production quotas.
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