21.   There is no reliable count for the region, but children are widely employed elsewhere as domestic help, waiters, motor mechanics and shop assistants.

22.   Blum of Germany also made a veiled call for a boycott of companies or industries that employ children.

23.   Children are frequently employed in carpet and glass factories, mining and other potentially dangerous sectors.

24.   Taking advantage of the apathy, loom owners employ children because they cost less and are less prone to unionism than adults.

25.   The children were employed as illegal workers by the factory, a fire department spokesman said.

26.   The label would be issued to carpet exporters who sign an affidavit stating that children were not employed in the production of carpets and give details about their looms.