Word: ilo
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...Sudan, says the ILO, peasants trapped by civil war are selling their young sons to traveling merchants for as little as $70; in Haiti more than 100,000 children, sold or given away by poor families, toil as domestic servants, usually eating and sleeping apart from the privileged people they serve; and in Pakistan as many as 20 million people, 7.5 million of them children, are working as bonded laborers in factories, on farms and on construction projects, unable to pay off employer advances. The ILO warns that slavery-like practices also exist in countries as varied as Mauritania, India...