Growing cotton nowadays is a very risky business. While farmers suicides in cotton-growing areas have been a long running phenomenon, a new report by the India Committee of Netherlands reveals that a shocking 400,000 children are involved as child labourers in the cotton industry in India. Multinationals Monsanto and Bayer as well as 13 big indian companies are also implicated in this supporting this "modern form of child slavery"
Discrimination and stigma against people living with HIV and AIDS reached a new low in Rajasthan when the courts denied a mother custody of her child because she had the virus, something her soldier husband gave her.
Climate change has been on the agenda for sometime now. So we knew it would not be long before children get dragged into the game. NGOs working to offset carbon footprints generated in the west with development activities in the west become controversial with this foot operated pump that forces children into child labour, according to Times online.
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