Children at Work

Dirty work: A rescued child laborer, his hands stained with rubber residue, eats a biscuit at the Narela police station in New Delhi on June 12. On June 15, a New Delhi court issued a statement saying that when it comes to trafficking children, the government should prosecute family members who hand over their sons and daughters to placement agencies in return for money. Some activists, though, think that going after families is "anti-poor" because poverty drives families to give up their children out of desperation.

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