Sentences with phrase «child labour issues»

Poor working conditions and child labour issues continue to plague the clothing the clothing industry and some consumers are unaware that cheap clothes come at a cost to people and the environment.

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But it also has policies directly addressing issues common to the garment industry, such as prohibitions on forced and child labour.

ISEAL member standards are also working to tackle issues such as child labour, and to ensure workers receive fair wages and other benefits.

The issue of child labour came to the fore in 2001 after a series of media exposes depicted forced child labour and trafficking on West African cocoa farms.

Our leaflet explaining why to boycott Nestlé Fairtrade KitKat contains a useful summary of the baby milk and child slavery / labour issues — click here.

There are other reasons to boycott Nestlé, such as concern over its exploitation of water resources (see Council of Canadians boycott call), treatment of dairy and coffee farmers, accusations of child slavery and labour in its cocoa supply chain and other issues (see report to the UN Global Compact office, 2009).

Labour leader Ed Miliband highlighted the issue in his response to the Queen's Speech when he pointed out former health secretary Andrew Lansley had said he thought children ought to be «protected from the start» from «glitzy designs on packets».

The lawyer who described herself as «Voice for the Voiceless», said it was important people around the Second Lady, drew her attention to the fact that, there are more pressing national issues like child labour, child malnourishment, child prostitution that must necessarily catch her attention, rather than wowing on red carpets.

The narrator neglects to mention, of course, some of the ostensibly insignificant issues confronting British people at the time, such as the absence of workers» rights, child labour, slum housing and mass poverty.

The Labour manifesto will reiterate its pledge to halve child poverty by 2010 and abolish it by 2020, a target that looks ambitious after government figures issued this week.

[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.

Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt was quizzed on Mumsnet today and admitted the issue of when summer - born children start school was a growing concern for both parents and admissions authorities,

In fact this seems like a proper diversion from the real issue Labour should be tackling the SNP on at the moment and that is their statement that they will give «serious consideration'to Cameron's proposals to kill Syrian children.

[60] Attending her first session of First Minister's Questions as Labour leader on 22 December 2011, she addressed the issue of child neglect following the conviction of a Glasgow woman for the murder of her son and asking what lessons could be learned from the case.

Debating some of the key issues with local people are three cabinet - ranking politicians from the major parties: - Labour chief whip Geoff Hoon - Michael Gove, shadow secretary of state for children, schools and families, and - Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Vince Cable.

This project is Radijojo's initiative for fair globalization and development; focussing on issues like child labour, children's rights, fair trade and gender.

In the second lesson students look more specifically at the issue of global flows in waste; in particular e-waste, the patterns and causes as well as the problems of lack of regulation, child labour and toxic waste exposure.

Lucy Powell, Labour's shadow education secretary, commenting on the investigations, said: «Ministers have a basic responsibility to ensure that children are kept safe, and yet despite warning after warning, they have dragged their feet on this very serious issue, leaving children in unregistered schools where they could be in harm's way.

Apart from these, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has formed many treaties to cover various rights for workers, especially concerning health and safety issues, prohibitions on forced and child labour, and the right to organize unions (Beyond VoluntarisLabour Organisation (ILO) has formed many treaties to cover various rights for workers, especially concerning health and safety issues, prohibitions on forced and child labour, and the right to organize unions (Beyond Voluntarislabour, and the right to organize unions (Beyond Voluntarism 22).