GAP Responds to Child Labour Allegations with Pledge to Create ‘Sweatshop Free’ Labels

GAP’s child labour expose of last week has focussed minds on the problem of subcontracting; when suppliers put some, or all, of the manufacturing out to a sub-supplier without the knowledge or consent of the customer. Yesterday’s Observer reported that GAP are looking at a twin approach to tackle both child labour and illicit [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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Labour behind the Label - Let’s Clean up Fashion 2007 report

Last year Labour behind the Label released a report entitled Let’s Clean up Fashion, the report interrogated eleven high street retailers’ claims about their ethical trading programmes and concluded that none of the companies was doing enough. On Friday, Labour behind the Label released their 2007 update. This year’s report focuses on three issues: [More…]

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