Friday, 13 April 2012

List of Shame: Goods Made with Forced, Child Labor - USA - AFL - CIO

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Global-Action/List-of-Shame-Goods-Made-with-Forced-Child-Labor
The U.S. Department of Labor has added three products to the list of good produced by forced labor, child labor or both. The list now includes 133 products from 71 countries, ranging from bamboo in Burma to zinc in Bolivia. Added to the list yesterday are bricks in Afghanistan and cassiterite and coltan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more and see the full lists at the AFL- CIO web site page (Advice AFL-CIO web )  http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Global-Action/List-of-Shame-Goods-Made-with-Forced-Child-Labor