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Despite progress, Indian scavengers still forced to handle human waste

NARAYANMay 9, 2012

Some jobs are just so disgusting that most governments around the world have banned people from doing them. In India there's one profession that just won’t go away. It's called manual scavenging. Reporter Lakshmi Narayan visited a remote village in north India to find out what life’s like for the people, mostly women, who do this work.

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Report: Lakshmi Narayan