Sweatshop Toys? China's Goods Find US Homes - 2.11.2010

Free Versus Fair Trade Fails to Inspire Most in Congress...

'Real Toy Story' Reveals Dark Side of Toy Industry - 2.11.2010

Making and selling toys isn't exactly fun and games....

Stalking High-Tech Sweatshops - 2.11.2010

How HP's Bonnie Nixon-Gardiner spurred the industry to police worker conditions...

An iPod Has Global Value. - 2.11.2010

Who makes the Apple iPod? Here’s a hint: It is not Apple. ...

Disney Case Highlights China Supply Chain Pitfalls - 2.11.2010

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - In his dim two-room flat, Huang Renzhong showed a visitor a Mickey Mouse statuette and explained how creating Disney figurines during 15-hour work days in a grim factory led to a $90,000 lawsuit......

End Walmart Sweatshops! - 2.11.2010

Walmart has the ability to impact business as usual because of their large numbers of direct suppliers as well as indirect suppliers. Walmart is leading the worldwide race to the bottom in wages and working conditions. It has capitalized on global trade rules that allow full access to the U.S. market, even if products are made under conditions of extreme repression. Even at a time of great economic distress faced by most other companies, Walmart continues to boost record profits....

End Child Labor in Cotton! - 2.11.2010

Thousands of children around the world are forced to pick cotton. In India, child workers in the cottonseed industry are often in a state of debt bondage and work at least nine hours a day. In Uzbekistan, one of the world’s largest exporters of cotton, as many as two million children are forced to leave school and pick cotton in order to meet government-imposed cotton production quotas....

Factory Profile: PT. Busana Indah Global - 2.11.2010

This is a description of a factory where Hanes was known to sources from and serious freedom of association violations occured. A number of workers were fired for joining or supporting the union at the factory and although these employees have been reinstated, Hanes must continue to put pressure on this factory to improve wages and contract statuses....

Sweatshop Labour in Hip-Hop Apparel - 2.11.2010

Unveiling the truth behind multi-million dollar business......

How Fair is Your Eco Gear? - 2.11.2010

Don’t assume Big Apparel’s organic threads are sweatshop-free... ...

Know Thy Pants - 2.11.2010

Global supply chains carry serious environmental and labor challenges that apparel and other industries must attend to if they truly want to be sustainable. Michael Kobori, Vice President of Global Supply Chains at Levi's spoke with the Ceres Podcast about how Levi's is incorporating these issues into its sourcing decisions in order to create a more sustainable supply chain for its products....

Child Labor: The Hidden Ingredient to the Billion- - 2.10.2010

Democracy Now! radio broadcast: On Valentine’s Day, chocolate is the currency in which people are supposed to trade their love. Little do they know that chocolate might have been made with slave labor. We speak with Brian Campbell, an attorney with the International Labor Rights Fund....

Chocolate’s Bittersweet Economy - 2.10.2010

A Democracy Now! radio special: On Valentine’s Day, we look into two of the luxury industries that have come to expect huge profits on this hyper-consumerized occasion. We begin with chocolate. A scathing new report by veteran journalist and author Christian Parenti says hardly any progress has been made in the cocoa industry’s pledges to address child labor. We host a debate between Parenti and William Guyton, president of the World Cocoa Foundation. [includes rush transcript]...

Theo Chocolate Founder, CEO Joe Whinney on Fair Tr - 2.10.2010

A Democracy Now! radio interview with Joe Whinney, founder and CEO of Theo Chocolate, which describes itself as the only roaster of organic cocoa beans and the first roaster of Fair Trade certified cocoa beans in the United States. ...

The Challenge of Making Chocolate Child Labor Free - 2.10.2010

There are over a quarter of a million children who work in the cocoa plantations of West Africa. It's hazardous work, which exposes children to highly toxic pesticides. This episode of the BBC World TV series "Survivors Guide" goes to Cameroon, where the International Labour Organization has been working to eliminate child labour from cocoa production and help children return to school. Produced by Rockhopper TV in cooperation with the ILO. ...

East Bay Express: "The Politics of Chocolate" - 2.10.2010

East Bay chocolate makers like John Scharffenberger are having to answer for the sins of West African cocoa farmers...

Chocolate Company Scorecard 2009 - 2.10.2010

Major chocolate companies have all made lofty promises, but how many have delivered? Here is an update from the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) on who has delivered, and who has not....

Take Action: Tell Hershey to Stop Child Labor! - 2.10.2010

Let's get beyond the talking points and ask Hershey, M&M/Mars and Nestle what each company is doing specifically to ensure they are respecting internationally recognized labor rights in their cocoa sourcing....