Date of publication: September 10, 2009
Source: As It Happens
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Newsflash to those who've been boycotting carpets from India:
if you're concerned about children toiling away instead of going to school, you'll have to avoid a whole lot of items at the mall and grocery store.
Today, the U-S Department of Labour released a list of more than a hundred goods made by children, and the countries these goods come from. There are green beans from Mexico, shrimp from Thailand, silk from India -- and the list goes on and on.
Tim Newman is the campaigns director for the workers' advocacy group, the International Labor Rights Forum. We reached him in Washington, D.C.