Children in agriculture: The unseen scourge

This year the World Day Against Child Labour focuses on the elimination of child labour in agriculture. Worldwide, agriculture is the sector where the largest percentage of working children is found - nearly 70 per cent. Over 132 million girls and boys aged 5 to 14 years old often work from sun up to sun down on farms and plantations, planting and harvesting crops, spraying pesticides, and tending livestock.

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Mayawati's victory - social engineering or social transformation?

Let us not forget that Mayawati is not a religious leader, she is a political leader. Those who wish to propagate religion are most welcome to do so. Mayawati has never objected to workers who wish to propagate Buddhism. She had in past helped such workers and would do in future whatever is possible for her to do.

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Paradise can be regained

Many talk of the past history of over 2500 years, the glory that it was when per capita of Ceylon was greater than Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Korea. How many know that Lanka has the only tree with a birth record, the largest man made clay brick structure is here and we had a great irrigation history, discoveries of the recent past prove Lanka being a country rich in agriculture.

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