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Experts Call For Doubling Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor

Stacey Knott

   ACCRA, GHANA - Experts say an international convention universally
   ratified in August will give children legal protection against the
   worst forms of child labor. In Ghana, children are still used in
   hazardous labor, especially in fisheries and the cocoa industry. One
   Ghanaian non-governmental organization is making a difference by
   rescuing children from work and getting them into school.

   When Stephen Addo goes out on missions to rescue children on Ghana's
   Volta Lake, he thinks about his own experiences being forced to fish
   when he was a child.

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