Recent Child Labor Articles page 4

Christian Science Monitor - And so when they look at ... who has the biggest influence over world affairs, over child labor, over environmental issues, they're beginning to see it's corporations. And they make the connection to endowments. What concerns ...

Stockhouse Canada - Bill Sali of Idaho, predicted that the bill will destroy the American mining industry, exporting jobs and the industry to overseas countries that have little or no environmental regulations and have child labor in the mines. The White House has ...

Associated Press - 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 ...

Associated Press - NEW DELHI (AP) -- 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 ...

St. Petersburg Times - The Gap responded by agreeing not to sell any of the garments from the work order identified by the newspaper and reiterating that it has a "rigorous factory-monitoring program" to police against the use of child labor. One is left to wonder, however ...

Age - It is estimated more than 100,000 children work in the Ivory Coast's cocoa industry under "the worst forms of child labor," and that about 10,000 are slaves. As the Ivory Coast produces 43 per cent of the world's cocoa, it is likely almost half the ...

NDTV - Prominent among these include entering into an agreement with an Indian NGO, working in field of child labor, to certify its products; more intensive investigations, surprise inspections of the factories of its contractors and an urgent meeting with ...

Common Dreams - It was enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket. The Gap has been caught using child labor in an Indian sweatshop, and not just child labor–child slaves. As extensively reported on the news, the children, some as young as ten, were ...

KPIX-TV5 - (CBS 5) SAN FRANCISCO Since last Sunday, when it was first reported that Gap had used child labor in India, the company has been battling an image problem. Now, Gap is talking to child care advocates who staged daring raids on sweat shops to try to ...

FOX News - But the rhythmic reality stars were only 17, and under New York law they were supposed to apply for a permit to perform to ensure protocol regarding child labor. Pop Tarts has learned it was actually a fan who discovered the law-breaking, resulting in ...