It was economic growth that made the elimination of child labor possible as well.
This is not to deny that governments have limited or forbidden child labor by law.
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The directors asked Mr. Barakzai if he would look into child labor in the coal mines.
What eliminates child labor is not government decree but a rising standard of living.
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In this issue we include a gripping account of child labor, focused on India.
We found that consumers have basic expectations about recycling programs and preventing the employment of child labor.
Child labor is as old as the earliest settlements in the Indus Valley thousands of years ago.
Child labor, deforestation, diversity, climate disruption, lobbying and more became issues for which business was held responsible.
And for decades, it has improved worker safety and health and aggressively combated child labor at home and abroad.
Others want to end child labor by finding jobs for parents, thereby eliminating the necessity for kids to work.
"We strictly prohibit the use of child labor, " Hansen said in a statement.
Asics' bylaws include standards prohibiting partners from using forced labor and child labor.
Regardless of what you think of the wisdom of changing our child labor laws, Newt does have a point.
Sometime within the next few months Gap intends to convene a global forum to consider "industrywide solutions" to child labor.
Some, such as expanding the right to vote, enacting Social Security and ending child labor, seem obvious to modern eyes.
While the government has enacted laws to curb child labor, the rules have so far done little to curtail the problem.
"Our contracts require payment of minimum wage, " says Anne Burt, a spokesperson, adding that Syngenta has a strict policy against child labor.
It also engendered safety and child labor laws, after reformers documented the lives of the poor in a way painters never could.
On the flip side: If it employs child labor or dumps waste into rivers, it becomes vulnerable to lawsuits from socially-minded investors.
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And this year, we will lead the international community to conclude a treaty to ban abusive child labor everywhere in the world.
Farmers and laborers could also potentially use it to report questionable activities such as child labor or illegal spraying back to the cooperative.
This month, on the Iowa campaign trail, he says that reports about his child labor comments were being falsely portrayed by the liberal media.
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She has investigated alleged extrajudicial killings by the security forces, set up a shelter for vulnerable young women, and campaigned to end child labor.
If capitalism is what caused the West to grow rich, then it was capitalism, not government intervention, that eliminated child labor in the developed world.
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The National Labor Committee created a media frenzy over the child labor that was used to create Kathie Lee Gifford's Walmart label, effectively ending it.
Again, out of the endless number of specific issues a company could respond to, from child labor to malaria, how do you determine where corporate responsibility lies?
Babu says that pressure from Monsanto and the MV Foundation, an NGO in Andhra Pradesh backed by the Dutch nonprofit Hivos, forced him to quit using child labor.
Samsung faced some serious allegations surrounding the plants of its Chinese contractor HEG Electronics earlier this month, including potentially dire accusations that HEG was employing child labor.
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At the core of each plan should be strategies for policing an end to child labor, enforcing laws against child marriage, and clamping down on discrimination against girls.
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