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.
India's trade minister insisted Tuesday that activists were hyping accusations of child labor in the country, taking a defensive stand following a report that Gap Inc. had sold clothes made by children in a New Delhi sweatshop.
With Gap Inc. under fire for selling clothes made by children in India, activists and police raided a sweatshop in New Delhi where 14 boys were embroidering women's garments Monday, illustrating the widespread problem of child labor in the South Asian country.
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.
A ban on child labor took effect Tuesday, but at roadside food stalls across New Delhi, many of the boys and girls who serve glasses of piping hot tea, wash dishes, mop floors and take out trash were not celebrating.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clothing retailer Gap Inc. has fired an Indian company accused of using child labor to make clothes, the company's president said.
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.
Child sweatshop shame threatens Gap's ethical image Dan McDougall Sunday October 28, 2007 The Observer
A federal case thrusts the issue of Haitian 'restaveks' -- children forced to work in slave-like conditions -- into the public spotlight.
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.
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.
Well, it was only a matter of time till something like this happened. We need solutions, not indulgences for your environmental sins.
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.
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.
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...
By now, the questions whiriling around CBS' "Kid Nation" have been widely reported.
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.
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.
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.