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Our World: Switzerland: Stolen Childhoods 

Switzerland: Stolen Childhoods 

31/10/2014 GMT

Switzerland: Stolen Childhoods

BBC News - Our World, Switzerland: Stolen Childhoods

The stories of survivors who lived as indentured child labourer in Switzerland.

For Our World, Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland and hears the extraordinary stories of survivors who lived as indentured child labourers.

From the nineteenth century until the mid1960's in Switzerland, thousands of children from poor backgrounds, were sent to work on farms as cheap forced labour. Many of these verdingkinder, or "contract children" experienced years of physical and mental abuse. 
Now campaigners have launched a petition to pressure Parliament to pay them compensation. For Our World, Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland and hears the extraordinary stories of survivors who lived as indentured child labourers.

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