Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Child labor in Thailand

Child laborers toil in Thai seafood factories (Reuters)

Migrant workers work at a shrimp factory in Samut Sakhon on the outskirts of Bangkok March 22, 2007. Human rights groups say thousands of children and illegal Myanmar migrants are working in Thailand's $2 billion-a-year shrimp export industry, often in conditions little short of modern-day slavery. Industry officials deny the allegations. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)Reuters - It is 7.30 in the evening and an excited chatter fills the room as 11-year-old Nampeung and her friends get their work checked before clearing their desks and heading home.


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