GAP Sweatshops- October 29, 2007
"Clothing retailer Gap Inc. has fired an Indian company accused of using child labor to make clothes, the company's president said, 'It's deeply, deeply disturbing to all of us,' Gap President Marka Hansen said Sunday after watching a video of children at work in a New Delhi, India, sweatshop. 'I feel violated and I feel very upset and angry with our vendor and the subcontractor who made this very, very, very unwise decision,' Hansen said. Hansen blamed the alleged abuse on an unauthorized subcontractor for one of its Indian vendors and said the subcontractor's relationship with the Gap had been 'terminated.'" -(CNN World)
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Although the debate of child labor happened in the United States, it effects have to yet to fully reach other parts of the world. In other countries, there are many children who have to work at extremely young ages and under horrible conditions, such like what is seen in the GAP Sweatshop controversy. In this situation, the GAP company did not even know that some of their factories were using child labor, and therefore were not aware they were selling products produced by child hands.
(To see full article, click here)
Although the debate of child labor happened in the United States, it effects have to yet to fully reach other parts of the world. In other countries, there are many children who have to work at extremely young ages and under horrible conditions, such like what is seen in the GAP Sweatshop controversy. In this situation, the GAP company did not even know that some of their factories were using child labor, and therefore were not aware they were selling products produced by child hands.
The Korea Times picture 'Indian child labor scandal'
