Press 1 for child labour: Garment workers use cellphones to report abuses


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  • Monday, 10 Oct 2016

(FILES) In this photograph taken on June 12, 2014 eleven year-old Indian boy, Mohammad Abdul Salem works on a car at a vehicle repair garage on World Day Against Child Labour in Dimapur, in northeastern state of Nagalan. Police in India's Mumbai placed nearly 70 poor boys in care on December 16, 2014 after rescuing them from traffickers who were bringing them to the city to work. AFP PHOTO / Caisii Mao / FILES

MUMBAI: Textile workers from Bangladesh to Turkey are using cellphones to report child labour, delayed wages and trafficking – a trend rights groups say shows the promise of technology in tackling abuses in the garment industry. 

Two mobile services, both by US-based companies, encourage workers to call toll-free numbers to anonymously log violations they see around them. 

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