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Ikea soft toy sales help fight child poverty in poorest countries
...[Marianne] Barner, the head of Ikea Social Initiative...is visiting Unicef's London HQ...to talk about the partnerships the company has developed with Unicef and Save the Children...Last year Ikea...has given €16.7 million to schemes focused on improving education across 30 countries. ...Joanne Dunn, Unicef's Geneva-based senior protection adviser on child labour, tells..."[IKEA] is interested in addressing what drives child labour.'...Rather than dropping the offending suppliers,...[IKEA] ended up working with the NGOs to set up monitoring and training programmes, and develop a code of conduct based on the 2000 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child...Toby Webb, the managing director of the magazine Ethical Corporation,...[says:] 'It is not a perfect company [though it is working towards sourcing timber from sustainably managed forests, it is falling short of its own targets], but on child labour it is progressive..."