Cruelty-free soccer balls come with a hidden cost
Efforts to end child labor in the factories that produce millions of soccer balls every year have translated into a marked absence of children stitching product for the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Instead, families are sending their children to work in area brick kilns and metal factories where there is no international scrutiny.
Der Spiegel (Germany) | 03/16
This story published in UN Wire on 03/17/2010
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