Gap pulls clothing after Indian child labour report
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US clothing retailer Gap on Sunday withdrew from sale garments that were allegedly produced by Indian child labour, a British newspaper reported after conducting an undercover expose.
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Clothing retailer Gap Inc.  on Thursday reported a 26 percent drop in quarterly profit due to sluggish sales at established stores and losses at its failed Forth & Towne business.
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A group of developing countries Friday proposed that the World Trade Organization study the global impact of phasing out a textiles and clothing quota system, saying many countries are losing out because of this trade liberalization.
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Australian government bodies withheld billions of dollars from Aboriginal workers, stockpiling the money while children were dying of malnutrition, a study released Wednesday said.
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Calling allegations of child labor at an Indian factory contracted to make some of its apparel "deeply disturbing," the president of Gap North America says the company has fired the subcontractor responsible for the abuse and will not be selling the garments made there in its stores.
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U.S. apparel chains, which are already suffering from slow back-to-school spending, on Wednesday saw their shares take a hit from a rating downgrade of industry leader Gap Inc.
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LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of child soldiers are being   used in conflicts around the world and governments are doing  little to  stop this, says a report published Wednesday.
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LONDON - Clothing retailer Gap Inc. said yesterday 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.
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Children in Pakistan are increasingly exposed to abuse, kidnapping and violence, a new report says.
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Marked divisions in children's well-being  in 21 industrialised countries are  highlighted in a Unicef report.
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The government's strategy for tackling child poverty discriminates against two-parent families, a report claims.
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India has banned child weddings but half of the nation's women are still married off before the age of 15, according to a new government report obtained by AFP on Friday.
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Clothing retailer Gap Inc.   reported on Thursday a 26 percent drop in quarterly profit due  to increased markdowns at Gap stores and losses at its failed  Forth & Towne business.
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Gap Inc.'s management has changed, but the troubled clothing retailer's financial trends remain distressingly familiar with both profits and sales still evaporating.
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The gap in achievement between poor children and their peers widens at every stage of schooling, a report says.
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NEW DELHI - 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 yesterday, illustrating the widespread problem of child labor in the South Asian country.
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Fashion chain Gap says it will withdraw from sale items of clothing allegedly made using child labour in India.