October 1, 2013, 10:19 am 2 Comments
By LIEN HOANG
HO CHI MINH CITY — “It’s basic police work,” said Michael Brosowski describing his activities with the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, a nongovernmental agency that rescues children working in sweatshops in Vietnam. When it learns about a case of child labor, workers for the agency scout out suspected factories, snoop around posing as, say, electricians, and keep getaway cars on hand.
At least they used to. Groups like Blue Dragon once did all the legwork involved in investigating cases of child labor; the police would help when it came time to rescue the children. Then, as the police realized that the children, though paid, were often working under duress, they started leading these operations.
Read more: http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/vietnams-trade-of-underaged-species/?_r=0
