How poverty wages for tea pickers fuel India's trade in child slavery
- INVESTIGATIONS
- October 20, 2013
Gethin Chamberlain
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How poverty wages for tea pickers fuel India’s trade in child slavery1
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- October 20, 2013
Millions of Brits drink a cup of Assam tea each day, but it comes at a terrible price. Plantation workers on 12p an hour are easy prey for traffickers who lure away their daughters to India’s cities. Now pressure is growing on big tea brands to safeguard better pay Gethin Chamberlain in Assam, for The
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India targets the traffickers who sell children into slavery0
Up to 200,000 children a year fall into the hands of slave traders in India, many sold by their poverty-stricken parents for as little as £11. Now a group of activists has set out to rescue them from a life in the sweatshops of Delhi Gethin Chamberlain in Katihar, India, for The Observer, 5 August
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