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Fighting to Unravel India's Widespread Child Labor Abuses

Season 2013 Episode 2120 | 10m 34s

There are laws against child labor in India, yet millions of underage children are still trafficked or forced by poverty to toil away in factories. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro profiles an entrepreneur who developed a labeling system for rugs made without child labor and helps get underage workers back in school.

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