Modern Day Slave Trade and Child Labor Sweatshop Practices still Utilized in India

India is a nation known for unethical child labor practices also known as the sweatshop. The United States and United Kingdom have keep a watchful eye out in the last recent years on imports specifically clothing that is exported from India due to child labor practices, that are still taking place today. However, over the last decade child labor practices have been implemented on the labor industry to ensure fair wages for equal work and improved working conditions and reasonable benefits. One major law specifically prohibits children under the age of fourteen to work in a hazardous working environment. According to reports of India's Appeal Export Council, the laws implemented by the Indian government are rarely enforced and more importantly violations to the industrial and labor industries are not accurately reported. I believe this article brings home the issues of the modern day slave trade, where children are being forced to work in unsafe, unsanitary and potentially life threatening working conditions. While the unethical and illegal child labor practices are taking place, until the public speaks up and takes action against the industry and government officials nothing may change for the years to come.

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