1In India children start work before dawn and work late into the night making carpets. There are allegations of slave labour and torture of the "children of the loom". However, despite an inquiry there is unlikely to be any change as the western world demands more and more carpets.
2The United Nations Conference on the end of "A Decade for Women" was in July this year, in Nairobi, but the contrast between the delegates and the stark poverty outside the conference is marked.