951:. This number may have been as high as 15 million children. In 1993 employers in Bangladesh' ready-made garment (RMG) industry dismissed 50,000 children (c. 75 percent of child workers in the textile industry) out of fear of economic reprisals of the imminent passage of the Child Labor Deterrence Act (the Harkin Bill after Senator Tom Harkin, one of the US Senators who proposed the bill). The act which banned "importation to the United States of products which are manufactured or mined in whole or in part by children" would have resulted in the loss of lucrative American contracts. Its impact on
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report confirmed that most of the children found themselves in much more deplorable situations, such as crushing stones, scavenging through trash dumps, and begging on the streets. Many of the girls eventually ended up in prostitution
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191:Taking Children Seriously
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63:Fair Labor Standards Act
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562:One World Youth Project
446:Youth-adult partnership
894:United States Congress
341:Emancipation of minors
211:Youth detention center
53:Kids Online Safety Act
264:Age of consent reform
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361:Juvenile delinquency
299:Compulsory education
249:Adolescent sexuality
159:Free-range parenting
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567:Queer Youth Network
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