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Article

20 Nov 2009

Author:
Paddy Maguire, Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Using fashion to fight child labour [Netherlands]

[includes audio] Dutch fashion houses and business leaders have come together to launch a shop that only stocks clothes manufactured without the use of child labour... The opening coincides with the 20th anniversary...of the international convention on the rights of the child. The new store, CLF (Child Labour Free) opened...For ten days its shelves will stock only clothes whose manufacturers...[could] ensure that no children were involved in their production...[T]he store aims to be as certain as it can be by pursuing ethical business practice...Finding a way of getting children out of sweatshops is all about education, says Gerard Oonk, director of the India Committee of the Netherlands, which is a party to the Stop Child Labour Campaign...[also refers to Bllack Noir (part of Noir)]