India Starts Fight Against Child Labor

Young Indian bonded child laborer Iqrar, 11, wears a number and poses for photographs as his details are processed after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. In New Delhi alone, about 50,000 children are believed to be working in factories, with thousands more begging on the streets and sorting garbage. India recently passed a law aimed at fighting child labor by making education compulsory up to age 14 but grinding poverty still leads many kids to work, and certain industries that involve intricate machinery or delicate handiwork prefer their smaller hands. <AP/NEWSis>

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