Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and his wife Ruth are handed October 10 a symbolic machete by two child workers, Jose Carlos Bezerra (L) and Debora Alves da Silva. Cardoso sent a bill to Congress that would ban the employment of children up to the age of 14. Human rights groups say some 3.5 million Brazilian children work in sugar cane fields, coal factories and other poorly-paid industries.

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