Radiohead collaborates with MTV on anti-sweatshop video

 Radiohead have teamed up with MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) to produce a music video to raise awareness of child labour and human trafficking.  The  song ‘All I Need’ from the ‘In Rainbows‘ album is used as a backing track on a video featuring two stories, shown simultaneously; one of a boy from [More…]

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Child Labour Child Labourers from Sichuan are “sold like vegetables” in Dongguan

 
Various media outlets in China including the Southern Metropolitan News, Xinua and Sina (links in Chinese) have been reporting that bonded child labourers have been found being ‘sold like vegetables’ in Shipai, Dongguan.   The working conditions into which they were sold were horrific. The reports allege that:

There are up to 750 bonded child workers in [More…]

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child labour montage Hearing the voices of child workers

 
We are all hearing much more about child labour these days.  The hundreds of children trafficked to work in the brick kilns of Shanxi  province in China, and the trafficked child labour in the garment industry in Delhi have recently made the international headlines.  We are also finding child labour more often in our [More…]

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Gap allegations of Child labour in India

We are in eager anticipation of what will be said by the Gap in their presentation at the Ethical Supply Chain Summit in Amsterdam tomorrow, following the allegations in The Observer and on The BBC News today.A double page spread in The Observer and exclusive video footage on the BBC detailed the use of [More…]

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image3.gif 1000 children aged 8-13 years old working in brick kilns in Shanxi

Our China team just sent over this terrible story from the Chinese papers. Be warned its not for the faint hearted…
Following the news stories on the Olympics firm accused of using child labor, the Chinese papers have reported that at least 1000 trafficked children were found working in brick-making factories in Shanxi. [More…]

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Unfair labour for the Olympics

The Playfair 2008 coalition released a report in June alleging poor labour conditions in factories making goods for the 2008 Olympics. No Medal for the Olympics on labour rights focuses primarily on child labour, excessive hours and poor wages. The Playfair coalition includes the Clean Clothes Campaign, Intertational Textile Garments and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF) and [More…]

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