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Traffickers manage to get into dense islands in India called the Sundaarbans, accessible only by boat. Children are easily forced into prostitution due to poverty and climate change that is causing severe flooding. But Save the Children India and their partners are fighting back…working to stop the problem by setting up small classes in the villages of about 30 children, mostly girls, to get them caught up on their studies, so they can enrolled again in formal schooling.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) prohibits the employment of youth under 18 in hazardous jobs, except for one industry that is particularly dangerous and the largest employer of children: agriculture. Luz Vazquez Hernandez is just one of the many young children who started working in the fields at age 14, traveling for picking seasons in Michigan and Florida in extreme heat, with hazardous chemicals, under severe physical duress. “It felt very
| Friday December 27, 2024
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