In response to Human Rights Watch's February report on child labor in Egypt's cotton industry, grant-making body US AID has added a new condition to Egyptian aid: cash transfers will be tied to the government publicizing its decision to rescind the 1965 decree that required cotton farmers to provide children to work in the cotton fields.
US AID Reacts to HRW Report on Child Labor in Egypt
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