Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Child laborers rescued after India factory raids

Kevin Frayer / AP

The Associated Press reports ? A young bonded child laborer cries as he is led away after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, at a garment factory in New Delhi, India, on June 12, 2012.

Raids on factories in the Indian capital revealed dozens of migrant kids hard at work Tuesday despite laws against child labor.

Police rounded up 26 children from three textiles factories and a metal processing plant, but dozens more are believed to have escaped. Those captured had all come to New Delhi from the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

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Kevin Frayer / AP

Child laborers sit on the floor of the district magistrate's office as they wait to be processed after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan in New Delhi on June 12, 2012.

Kevin Frayer / AP

Child laborers sit on the floor as bureaucrats go about their business at their desks at the district magistrate's office as they wait to be processed.

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