India's cotton fields: Over 4 lakh child labourers (rediff)
"Nearly 4,16,000 children below 18 years, almost half of which are even younger than 14 years of age are working in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the report said, adding that compared to the 2003-2004 harvest season, the total number of such children has risen.
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"The overwhelming majority of the children working in the cotton fields are either Dalits or tribals, it said.
"Around 13 big Indian companies and two multinational groups are involved in this 'modern form of child slavery,' the report revealed."
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