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'Child labour used in cotton plants'
Mint New Delhi
|January 08, 2025
Some of the best-known global apparel brands procured cotton grown in Indian farms that employ child and bonded labourers, a report by a US-based rights group alleged Tuesday.
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An investigation by Transparentem into the working conditions on 90 cotton farms in Madhya Pradesh between 2022 and 2023 revealed "widespread use of child labour and illegal adolescent labour", the New York-based non-profit said.
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