Fair Feels Good

Towards the end of last year, Indian authorities raided factories making GAP clothing, and found children as young as 10 employed there making garments for the GAP Kids range. The children said they were sold to the factory by their families, some of them claim they were not paid and all of them were working in terrible conditions.

GAP says the clothes produced at these factories will not be sold in the U.S. and it has ended its contract with the factories. We do not think this is enough. Since 2004 GAP has been pressurized to employ monitors to oversee its factories, but today there are there are only 90 monitors for 2,000 factories - a true representation that the company has “outsourced so much of their supply chain, that they now can’t control very critical issues about core treatment of workers producing their goods” (Dara O’Rourke, UC Berkeley professor).

Child labor must not be tolerated. GAP (including Old Navy, Banana Republic and Piperlime) does not do enough to respect human rights. Tell these stores that you object, and choose an alternative until there is a change.