Posts Tagged ‘forced child labour’
When Will Toblerone Be Traffik-Free
Child slavery in the Cocoa Industry Thousands of children are trafficked into the cocoa industry each year. The cocoa beans they harvest are used to make our chocolate. These children have never tasted chocolate. What can you do about this form of forced child labour? Send a postcard to Mondelez, the world’s largest chocolate company…
Read MoreAll That Glitters…
Are Children Being Forced to Work So You Have Make-Up? If you check the packaging of many cosmetic products you may see ‘Mica’ listed among many other ingredients. This is the most common mineral used in mineral make-up, giving lip gloss, foundation, powder, eye-shadow and nail-polish its sleek shimmer. What it doesn’t list in the…
Read MoreCOTTON ON Committed to Corporate Social Responsibilities
Working to Maintain Acceptable Working Conditions and Trade Practices Jacqui Hennessy, Group Risk Manager of Cotton On says, “The Cotton on Group is very much aware of the issue of forced child labour and other humanitarian exploitation in Uzbekistan and around the globe. We are strongly committed to our corporate social responsibilities and proactively maintain acceptable…
Read MoreChild Labour in Uzbekistan
Cotton Picking in Uzbekistan Uzbekistan is the world’s sixth largest producer of cotton, and the third largest exporter. For decades it has used forced labour of schoolchildren, college and university students to harvest cotton by hand.Each year over one million children as young as nine-years-old are sent out to work in the fields (http://www.sourcingnetwork.org/cotton). This…
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