Category: textiel
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New Report Identifies Ways to Tackle Child Labour Risks in the Turkish Cotton Sector
Companies and NGOs Cooperate to Trace Cotton Supply Chain in Turkey in Run Up to Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textiles.
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New Report Identifies Ways to Mitigate Child Labor Risks in the Turkish Cotton Sector
Companies and NGOs Cooperate to Trace Cotton Supply Chain in Run Up to New Dutch Agreement to End Child Labor in Garment Supply Chains.
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Garment brands contribute to low wages & child labour in Bangladesh
The average worker in the Bangladeshi garment industry is getting paid only one third of what is considered to be a living wage. Low wages and long working hours have been found to play a key role in parents’ decisions to take their children out of school and let them work in various jobs.
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“New Indian Child Labour Bill allows many children to work”
ndia has a new law against child labour. Or more precisely: the old Child Labour Act of 1986 was recently amended. On July 19, 2016, the Indian Upper House (Rajya Sabha) approved the amendments.
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Stop Child Labour signs Sustainable Garment and Textile Sector Covenant
Stop Child Labour signed a Sustainable Garment and Textile Sector Covenant today, together with 55 businesses, their trade organisations, the Dutch government and several other NGOs.
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Come into action now or new legislation will be introduced
“I would prefer to support and facilitate, but I am not afraid to introduce new legislation.” These are the words of Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade & Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen.
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Mitigating child labour risks in Turkish garment and cotton sector
The Working Group on Child Labour has launched a pilot project to map, identify and mitigate child labour risks in the Turkish apparel supply chain extending back to cotton farms.
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Almost half a million Indian children produce cottonseed
Almost half a million Indian children are working to produce the cottonseed that is the basis for our garments and all the other textile products that we use. Around 200,000 of them are below 14 years of age.
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Child labour in cottonseed fields of Gujarat
Every year thousands of tribal children from South Rajasthan and North Gujarat are trafficked to cottonseed plots in North Gujarat for work in the cotton seed fields, in particular to do cross-pollination by hand.
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New Report: Modern day slavery in the Indian textile industry
‘Flawed Fabrics’ – a new report by SOMO and ICN – shows that workers are still facing appalling labour conditions that amount to forced labour in the export-oriented Southern Indian textile industry.