Saturday, 15 December 2012
Raid Finds 14 Child Slaves Forced into Sweatshop
"A raid on an Indian sweatshop freed 14 children -- some as young as 8 years old -- who had been kept in slave-like conditions making Christmas decorations allegedly bound for the West, Yahoo! reports.
The children were kept in tiny rooms, working 19 hours a day to create the festive trinkets, according to the outlet."*
A human rights group raided a sweatshop and found 14 Indian children who had been enslaved, forced to make Christmas decorations for the west. But that's not the end of it; millions of children are being forced into slave labor. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) discuss why regulations are needed to protect children.
*Read more form Meredith Bennett-Smith/ Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/delhi-14-freed-raid-frees-enslaved-i...
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