Child Labour In Fashion Industry

Child Labours Contribution to the World of Economic Success

 

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            As in the modern and developed technology era, with the support of numerous and varies organisation like independent & dependent (Government & non-Government) and non-profit organisation helps to grow the economic scale.

            According to various studies about Child labours, found that, they are involved in fuelling the Global economic in cheap labour market.  The below example explain the figure and facts.

• Global number of children in child labour has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children. More than half of them, 85 million, are in hazardous work (down from 171 million in 2000).
• Asia and the Pacific still has the largest numbers (almost 78 million or 9.3% of child population), but Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region with the highest incidence of child labour (59 million, over 21%).
• There are 13 million (8.8%) of children in child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Middle East and North Africa there are 9.2 million (8.4%).
• Agriculture remains by far the most important sector where child labourers can be found (98 million, or 59%), but the problems are not negligible in services (54 million) and industry (12 million) – mostly in the informal economy.
• Child labour among girls fell by 40% since 2000, compared to 25% for boys.

                            _{Source: Marking progress against child labour - Global estimates and trends 2000-2012  (ILO-IPEC, 2013).}

                ILO standardize on International law worker below age 18 are consider as child labour. Most of the child labours are worked in rural area almost 70% and rest are working in developed cities. Child labours are employed in various industries, hazard works and domestic.

            Mostly Child labours are gets into the textile and clothing industry because textile and apparel are one of the world’s largest industries. Globalization indirectly educates the child labour market due to sharp manufacturing cost. Many high street and fast fashion brand are changing their sourcing ethic to avoid child labour, unfortunately it was not complete success, and Here and there some of the brand scandals are caught and published in media. Sometimes common people are fight against the brand.  

In recent years brand are caught for the child labours are Primark, Matalan, Joe Fresh, El Corte lngles, bonmarchè, Mango, United colors of benetton, Children Place, Wal Mart, Gap, H&M, Disney, Nike, Sears, Kik, La senza, Victoria’s Secret, Alexander Wang, Marks and Spencer, Equop, Hug, Gossypium and  Bishopston trading. Almost there is no fairtrade label for chlothing.

            Various organization studies in different countries with different aspect to measure the Child labour Index. Emerging countries and several countries are practicing child labour market due to various reasons. Some of the main reasons are climatic change, poor job market, and low economic growth.

            Countries like Bangladesh, India, Nigeria and Pakistan are the worst countries even dozens of countries are very bad like Chad, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, Burma, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Extreme risk countries are Indonesia, Egypt, Philippines, Iran, Vietnam, Brazil and Mexico. China is involved in this but the Government is not publishing the real statistic.