Source: BlogHer
Valentines Day -- aka chocolate day -- is coming up. And while I'm all about yummy chocolates, I'm peeved that a lot of the choco in the US could still be tainted by illegal child labor.
Source: MotherJones.com
Just in time for the holidays, teenage whistleblowers expose the factory where kids make tree-trimmings on the cheap.
What is child labour: Any child under the age specified by law worldwide works full time, mentally or physically to earn for own survival or adding to family income, that interrupts child's social development and education is called "child labour".
Source: Business Week
Gap Inc. is pulling 50 percent of its orders placed with a vendor whose subcontracting led to children sewing some of the retailer's clothes in squalid conditions in India.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Gap Inc. is pulling 50 percent of its orders placed with a vendor whose subcontracting led to children sewing some of the retailer's clothes in squalid conditions in India.
Source: World Socialist Web Site
On October 28, the British newspaper, the Observer, published an exposure of multibillion-dollar global clothing company Gap's use of child labor in India to produce children's clothing bound for US and European markets.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
The ambitious pledge, which would place the firm at the forefront of the battle to end sweatshops, comes in response to an undercover Observer investigation which last week exposed one of the firm's Indian suppliers employing children as young as 10 to make garments.
Source: Eco-Libris blog
Our reader from Minneapolis, Kermit Johnson, replied to our blog-action-day post and alerted us to a very interesting article he wrote about hardwood floors, deforestation and slave labor. So go check it out and big thumbs up to all green conscious real estate people out there.
Source: NDTV News
On Sunday the UK based Observer newspaper had done an expose on how children were being used to make clothes for global clothing retailer GAP.
Source: CNN
Clothing retailer Gap Inc. has fired an Indian company accused of using child labor to make clothes, the company's president said.
Source: The New York Times
LONDON (AP) -- Clothing retailer Gap Inc. said Sunday that it will convene all of its Indian suppliers to ''forcefully reiterate'' its prohibition on child labor after a British newspaper found children as young as 10 making Gap clothes at a sweatshop in New Delhi.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Child sweatshop shame threatens Gap's ethical image Dan McDougall Sunday October 28, 2007 The Observer
Source: MiamiHerald.com
A federal case thrusts the issue of Haitian 'restaveks' -- children forced to work in slave-like conditions -- into the public spotlight.
Source: IndiaNet
More than 416.000 children under the age of 18, of which almost 225.000 younger than 14, are involved in (often bonded) child labour in India's cottonseed fields. Most of them are girls.
Source: The New York Times
Major corporations are rushing to meet the growing demand for food products that adhere to social and environmental standards.
Nearly 90% (in my view) of child laborers are rural children who migrate to cities and end up begging, prostitution, domestic helpers, or other odd jobs. Nearly 40 - 50% children among working-children are street children.
Source: The Times
Well, it was only a matter of time till something like this happened. We need solutions, not indulgences for your environmental sins.
Source: vasco-pyjama.livejournal.com
A friend of mine, Delphine Brun, sent me this photo she took down south in Nias. It is of children who hammer rocks to turn it into gravel. They spend about a month hammering rocks to fill one truckload, and get about between Rp.200,000 to 480,000 (or USD20-48) for the pleasure.
Child labor is a consequence of poverty as hunger, homeless and others so is not as easy as we think.
Source: Variety.com
The Writers Guild of America has blasted the producers of "Kid Nation" over what it alleged were "deplorable" conditions for the crew on the New Mexico production -- even though WGA members weren't employed on the show.
Source: Reuters
I think I found something the media would better spend its time on than the Michael Vick controversy... Vick's being punished, he deserves it, let's move on...
Source: Past Deadline
By now, the questions whiriling around CBS' "Kid Nation" have been widely reported.
Source: The Smoking Gun
Parents of minors starring in "Kid Nation," the controversial new CBS reality show, signed away their rights to sue the network and the show's producers if their child died, was severely injured, or contracted a sexually transmitted disease during the program's taping.
Source: Variety.com
CBS is strongly denying allegations that its upcoming reality skein "Kid Nation" violated New Mexico child labor laws or put any of its youthful participants in danger during production.
Source: The New York Times
The producers of a CBS reality show featuring 40 children living on their own were warned while the show was being taped that they might be violating child-labor laws.