At least 500,000 are child laborers, Chinese surveys have shown; many work in sweatshop conditions.
During his term, a bill was enacted that prohibited child laborers from working more than eight hours a day.
They went to Calcutta to work with street children and child laborers.
A 10-year-old former child laborer stood before me reading from a schoolbook, proud that she had learned to read in just one year.
I support his cause and that of the child laborers he writes about.
Also, 90 percent of child laborers were not covered by any health insurance.
Some international agencies say the number of child laborers could be more than 100 million.
There are an estimated 15 million child laborers worldwide starving to death.
What most of these child laborers have in common is poverty.