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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[India News]: New Delhi, Dec 8 : India is on its way to poverty reduction and employment generation at a time when about 1.4 billion people, or half the world&#39;s workers, are trapped in grinding poverty, says a new International Labour Organisation (ILO
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South African fashion retailer Stuttafords said on Tuesday a court had ordered it to stop selling U.S. retailer Gap Inc.  merchandise due to a dispute with a local firm that claims to be the owner of the brand.
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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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Natural disasters around the world   last year disrupted the lives of millions of children, pushing   many into armed conflicts, prostitution, drug trafficking and   other dangerous occupations, according to a new U.S. government   report on child labor.
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Opposition has been raised to a possible takeover of two luxury brands by Indian companies, prompting accusations of racism
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A group of developing countries proposed yesterday that the World Trade Organization study the global effects of phasing out a textiles and clothing quota system, saying that many countries are losing out because of this trade liberalization.
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Children displaced, often orphaned, by tsunami, earthquakes and other disasters made last year a particularly sordid one for their exploitation as cheap labor or sexual victims, the government said Wednesday.
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The expiration of WTO textile quotas at the end of 2004 is expected to jeopardize jobs in some of the world's poorest places as the textile industry uproots to consolidate in low-cost China.
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Clothing retailers Primark and Mothercare have launched probes following allegations of mistreatment of Indian workers who make clothes for them, a report said Monday.
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Human Rights Watch on the frontlines of the child labor battle.
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The government's strategy for tackling child poverty discriminates against two-parent families, a report claims.
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More than 1,000 people, many of them young children, have been forced to work as slaves in a brutal human trafficking ring in China that has shocked and outraged the nation, police said Friday.
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Economic growth in China and India has dramatically reduced the number of people in Asia subsisting below the poverty level of $1 a day, but the total remains in the hundreds of millions, the International Labor Organization said Tuesday.
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Tens of thousands of elementary school-age girls work in Guinea for no pay as household servants in conditions akin to slavery, according to a report released Friday by Human Rights Watch.
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The British government moved Wednesday to stop the export of a jeweled headband once owned by Edwina, Lady Mountbatten, a leading fashion figure of the 1920s and wife of the last British viceroy of India.
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A British newspaper reported Sunday that it found children as young as 10 making clothes in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India, that the Gap Inc. fashion chain planned to sell in the West.