Children sold into slavery

[outsider]

End human trafficking in Assam:
http://www.walkfree.org/tata-help-prevent-trafficking-girls-working-te a-plantations/?

'The long answer looks like this:
1.Tata Global Beverages (owner of Tetley Tea) is the biggest shareholder of a company called Amalgamated Plantations which manages tea plantations in Assam, India.
2.Several years ago, a program was initiated that aimed to make tea plantation workers part owners in Amalgamated Plantations. In exchange for a portion of their already small wages, they would get shares in the company. Sounds good, right? Sadly, scores of workers report they were coerced to buy shares in Amalgamated Plantations and remain confused about the details.3
3.Reports indicate that workers are paid 94 rupees ($1.54 USD) a day, a little over half the legal wage for an unskilled worker in Assam. But there is a price for keeping wages so low, and it is paid by the workers who cannot afford to keep their daughters. When the traffickers come knocking, offering to take the girls away, promising good wages and an exciting new life, they find it hard to say no.4
4.Because of the poverty in Assam, trafficking girls is an attractive business for locals. Investigative reports indicate that people in Delhi have bought girls for as little as 4,000 Rupees (or $65 USD)...'

OK, so this COULD be classified as 'Campaigning', but it is obviously a 'War Against Children, Marriage and the Family', so that is what I shall 'lodge' (sorry about that - shades of 'Masonry') it under.

Though I'm not up for it (not because I am averse to it, 'au contraire'), someone could launch a Care 2 or AVAAZ petition, suggesting a boycott of Tetley Tea (and beer).

The only reason Britain, and even more so the USA, have had such a 'reasonable' lifestyle is because the UK and USA brutally expropriated poorer nations, at the point of a gun.
Believe it or not, that meme still holds.
We still have an 'enhanced' 'Standard of Living' from Colonial and 'Bankster' machinations.

We would be well advised to recognise that: we STILL benefit from virtual slavery.