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Fears surge in demand for hand sanitiser could fuel child labour

Employees put caps on bottles of ethanol-based hand sanitizers in a factory in Brazil, March 25, 2020. [Reuters]

Soaring global demand for hand sanitiser to combat the new coronavirus could increase the use of forced and child labour in sugarcane plantations, UK-based researchers said on Thursday.

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