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UN agency sounds alarm over exploitation of millions of children in domestic labour
12 June 2013 – With an estimated 10.5 million children worldwide working in people’s homes in hazardous and often slavery-like conditions, the United Nations labour agency today called for an end to child labour in domestic work and urged decent working conditions for adolescents who can be legally employed.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on findings of new analysis of death toll in Syria
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