A British newspaper reported that they found children making clothes in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India that the Gap clothing store is running to make clothing. Some of the children were as young as 10 years old and had been sold to the sweatshop by their parents. The children work up to 16 hours per day sewing clothing by hand and some of the children say that they are not being paid. One child said that if a child cried or didn’t work hard enough were hit with rubber pipes or had oily clothes stuffed into their mouths.
Representatives of the Gap clothing store say that they will stop the clothing being made by the children from being sold in their stores and that they will take action to stop the child labor.
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Gap or Wal-mart or any other and even an exporter who supplies would not know the involvement of child labor in stitching garments, as is hidden practice and media takes advantage for its publicity. Media does not care the reasons or does not wish to highlight reasons and issues of child labor. Shame on such Media or organizations those do not highlight solutions to child labor eradication rather expose for own advantage. http://www.sadashivan.com/ Number of child prostitution and street children are increasing each day, each month and each year. Arresting child labor in factories in several countries have opened numerous fields for young children to opt alternate ways of sourcing money. New fields like pornography, sex tourism, plastic items, plastic bags and garbage collection, begging in streets, pick pocketing. Check video how children perform acrobat in streets and roadside. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u80UpcatrGI
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