China brickwork slave children may number 1,000
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As many as 1,000 children may have been sold into slave labor in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media said on Friday amid an expanding scandal about official neglect.
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China announced a nationwide crackdown on enslavement and child labor on Wednesday, in the highest admission yet of grim exploitation in rural brick kilns where official complicity has been charged.
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Scores of people including a key suspect are arrested in China over slave labour in illegal factories, police say.
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Chinese parents pick up their children at the gate of the Korean School in Beijing Friday Oct. 22, 2004. As many as 29 North Korean asylum seekers entered the school earlier Friday, and told school authorities
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Child labor is a daily fact of life in China, experts say, and one that the government, preoccupied with economic growth, has traditionally turned a blind eye to.
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Dozens of children have not seen their parents since federal agents rounded up 361 undocumented workers last week at a leather-goods factory in Massachusetts, immigrants advocates said on Tuesday.
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About one million Chinese-made, Simplicity brand cribs are being recalled after three infants died and seven were trapped when the drop side of cribs detached causing a dangerous gap, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Nearly a quarter of all children in China's largest and wealthiest city Shanghai have considered committing suicide, according to a study published by state press.
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Growing numbers of Chinese children are  being born with deformities due to pollution, later pregnancies  and unhealthy lifestyles, state media said on Thursday quoting  a medical expert.
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The number of children dying from abuse could be much higher than previously thought, the NSPCC says.
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The number of city kids who have died from abuse or neglect this year is up an alarming 57%, officials said yesterday. Some 58 kids died from suspected maltreatment during the first nine months
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HANGZHOU, China -- Asked whether anyone has ever been beaten by his teacher, all the boys point to Chen Chen. The 12-year-old lifts up his shirt. Sure enough, there are four faint scars on his back from the feared whip.
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Lawyers are mobilizing to press the rights of victims of a Chinese slave labor scandal that has unleashed widespread outrage, while prosecutors vowed on Wednesday to punish officials tied to the exploitation.
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Tens of thousands of elementary school-age girls work in Guinea for no pay as household servants in conditions akin to slavery, according to a report released Friday by Human Rights Watch
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China, rocked by a brick kiln child slavery scandal, plans to set up a national panel to stop human trafficking, aimed at protecting women and children from forced labor and prostitution, state media reported on Tuesday.
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China has arrested two labor bureau officials for their alleged links to slave labor in brick kilns, amid reports Friday that kiln bosses were hiding child laborers and charging ransoms for their release.
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Natural disasters around the world   last year disrupted the lives of millions of children, pushing   many into armed conflicts, prostitution, drug trafficking and   other dangerous occupations, according to a new U.S. government   report on child labor.