and human rights group known as global march for children has led our raided
that led to on the discovery of fourteen inflate children in india now these are
indian children that were very on some of them as young as uh... you know
fourteen years old on and they were basically forced to make
christmas ornaments by the way i was a little more five years or so five two
fourteen years old on and they were forced to make outward immense and
christmas decorations for the last so um... i'm obviously happy that this raid
took place and i'm happy that they got discovered but there is a huge issue
with child labor in india and other you know it in developing industrialized
countries and have british prime minister gordon brown is kind of needing
an effort to put international pressure on these countries that are you know
trying to develop in trying to get uh... hustling investing economy but also not
do so on the backs of chopped children you know forcing them to do uh... pretty
dangerous labor anyway gordon brown says the following there's no parent in the
world who would ever want their child to be subjected to conditions that you see
in these films of children in dingy basements he also put out uh... it you
know a video to raise awareness about this issue so let's take a quick look at
that
uh... children are being asked to work uh... seventeen eighteen nineteen or
simply would be nice to have been sent to conditions
uh... that he has to work without some light
uh... some of them are lacerated because they're working with glass
uh... we found uh... these uh... children uh... in this uh... basement
uh... there you were not being paid they have been traffic themselves
uh... i am they weren't making these christmas decorations are being sold in
our shorts and on our web sites in the west
uh... and uh... a very brave group the global march against child labour moved
in raided the premises release the children that now free
but there are i'm afraid millions of children in these uh... conditions
and in this case at christmas which ought to be a time celebration for
children
uh... is simply a nightmare for children who are being exploited and used too
preachy christmas decorations up the cost of of their freedom but also the
cost of the safety
odd comes child labor issues dom
regulation a it's the perfect example of why regulation is necessary i mean at
the united nations estimated fifty five million children between the ages of
five to forty were currently employed in india unicef actually put that number at
twenty eight million children so depending on the source out you know you
get a different number
it's in the tens of millions comment and it's a real issue that needs to be
addressed and that's why here the united states we have certain regulations that
protect workers that protects children and sometimes regulations make sense
right
obviously you might be a significantly more difficult to make regulations like
that stick in the country as large as diverse live much different economy as
india
but i'm glad to point out that fifty five million
number because these ec
rate freeze fourteen kids vic of they found one sweatshop or something but
it's millions and millions and millions like if you thought about that the
american context
can you imagine if we found out that five hundred thousand kids
were being employed that way and obviously the fact that it's it's
christmas decorations specifically helps put it in
uh... more tragic on sex if they're making
these decorations for kids of the same page in america to enjoy their holiday
it really puts the distinction between two different worlds we live in an
increased our contrast
uh... and i i think it's interesting he said you're talking about how
regulations are important you and i don't remember if it was written for or
newt gingrich but they're basically were saying about a year ago well you know if
kids one to work in america one i'll let them work
yet as if they have any say over and not even in this context office are just one
second
on uses with the free
but the friend to what
they'll probably end up in a similar situation the future usually those
arguments fall flat because one argument that a lot of allotment when i did that
debate at issue you know i was debating a libertarian and a republican
and the issue of factory uh... you know waiver sweatshops came up
and i was discussing how do you know regulation is important just like in
this scenario uh... to protect workers' rights and when i brought up a sweat
shops they both agreed
on big both said in unison okay
well it's better than child prostitution
and that's the standard that they have that won't stand up while there may be
money spent on child prostitution
dot in theirs and i'm getting paper it but it looks
does that sound like a retest finds five
let me know what they wanted
the market and figured out to be fair as i've alluded to in the morning meeting
conserve the pricey this is the latest that like
war ablaze battle in the world process that these lives at rush hour down our
holiday decorations industry going on around the world lined up
look it's ridiculous in the end of the problem with this really is that when i
see this i think about the american context because i live in america and
that's where grew up
and we think we were at the same purcell quite a while ago a number of decades
ago but the problem with the american political memory
is that you could be a party or an ideology that deaths these amazing
victories for america
and make it will remember for a year
or a decade
but actually they forget that it was liberals they got you
regulations on child uh...
child employment after the weekend after the forty hour work week
we could go on and on and on and we have since where the young turks
but people forget about that you'll get the credit for so long an open service
can pretend that they're just as in favor of workers rights no some of them
along the edges on the fringe or running for president for the party of thinking
it wouldn't be so bad after that worked here