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[quote=JCNILE123,252893]Yeah! Indeed Dodger,
Yeah! I think it can be so nice to have such experience of friendship.
On the other hand, this talk have never happen have it not been
made possible by this forum.
To my self, this has been a learning experience, and I am please
to meet you and the other members in general.

On the news today this article about India.

By RAJESH MAHAPATRA, AP Business Writer
India's transformation in the past decade into an emerging global economic
power has done little to alleviate the country's widespread poverty or the
problems that go along with it, such as child labor.
The government estimates that 13 million children work in India, many of them
in hazardous industries such as glass making, where such labor has long been banned.
Rights activists place the number as high as 60 million; one estimate has 20 percent
of India's economy dependent on kids under the age of 14.
The scope of the problem was clear Monday when police and rights activists raided a
New Delhi sweatshop where children were embroidering the flowing saris worn by Indian women.
The sweatshop was found just a few houses down from the now-shuttered operation that
made the Gap clothes. Gap, following a Sunday report about the child labor in Britain's
Observer newspaper, has decided not to sell any of the products sourced from that factory,
which it said was being run by a subcontractor.
India has consistently opposed linking labor standards to trade, saying that would amount to
discriminating against developing countries, where poverty often drives children to work.
The use of child labor in India raises questions in particular for India's garment exporting industry,
a $10 billion a year business that grew by more than 20 percent in 2006.
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