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Article: LABOR-SOUTH ASIA: PAKISTAN FACES U.S. PENALTIES FOR CHILD LABOR
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- March 30, 1996
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Haider Rizvi
Inter Press Service English News Wire
03-30-1996
WASHINGTON, Mar. 29 (IPS) -- The Bill Clinton administration is
moving to cut trade benefits to Pakistan as it targets countries
in South Asia for the use of bonded and child labor.
"I think child labor is now a recognized problem in many of the
countries in South Asia in a way that it wasn't several years ago,"
John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and
Humanitarian Affairs told U.S. lawmakers recently.
Immense pressure from U.S.-based human rights groups has led the
administration to consider trade sanctions against Pakistan for
its failure to abolish bonded labor and child labor in certain
export-oriented ...