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GoodWeave International (formerly known as Rugmark)^[1] is a network of non-profit organizations dedicated to ending illegal child labour in the rug making industry. Founded in 1994 by children's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi,^[2]^[3]^[4] it provides a certification program that allows companies that pass inspection to attach a logo certifying that their product is made without child labour.^[5] It is an example of a product-oriented multistakeholder governance group.

Nina Smith, Executive Director of GoodWeave International explains:

I got involved in the movement to end child slavery because of a boy named Iqbal Masih. Iqbal was a carpet slave at the age of four and escaped servitude at 10. (...) Upon his return to Pakistan, Iqbal’s life was tragically cut short: he was murdered for his activism. His death helped to inspire the birth of GoodWeave (then RugMark). I read Iqbal’s story in a Vanity Fair feature after his death and realized the work that needed to be done in his memory.^[6]

Media coverage

Media outlets worldwide have given detailed coverage to Rugmark (now known as GoodWeave). For example, The PBS NewsHour reported, "GoodWeave offers a labeling system that guarantees that no child labor was used in making the rugs."^[7] According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the organization "has helped drastically reform the hand-knotted carpet industry in India, Nepal and Pakistan"^[8] The Guardian said, "GoodWeave's model centres on extensive monitoring and auditing at every stage of the supply chain,"^[9] The Philadelphia Inquirer concluded, "Rugmark is not just a symbol of quality. Its appearance on imported hand-knotted rugs is intended as a signal to consumers that child labor was not used in the production process."^[10] Channel 4 News in Belfast observed, "Rugmark is the best scheme for ensuring that carpets are slave free".^[11]

Responding to concern about violation of children’s rights during the 1980s, human rights organizations in Europe and India, along with UNICEF-India and the Indo-German Export Promotion Council, a German government agency, developed the program to provide assurance to consumers that the oriental carpets they were purchasing were made by adults rather than exploited children, and to provide for the long term educational and rehabilitation of children found working illegally on looms. The program was formally launched in India in the fall of 1994 and expanded into Nepal in 1996. Thereafter, negotiations with programs in Germany, Nepal, India, and the U.S. resulted in the formal creation of Rugmark International. An international constitution was adopted in May 1998.

Goodweave standard

Rugmark International re-branded the certification program and introduced the GoodWeave standard-based certification label in 2009. The organization was also re-branded as GoodWeave International. Certification requires assessment against three generic principles and sector-specific principles covering either carpets or home textiles as applicable. The generic standards are:

Principle A1: No child labor is allowed
Principle A2: No forced or bonded labor is allowed
Principle A3: Conditions of work are documented and verifiable.^[12]

Today the international network comprises producing country offices in India, Nepal and Afghanistan; and consumer country programs in the US, UK, and Germany. GoodWeave International is responsible for licensing throughout Europe and North America.

References

^ Rugmark
^ Chonghaile, Clar Ni (10 October 2014). "Kailash Satyarthi: student engineer who saved 80,000 children from slavery". The Guardian.
^ Davidson, Amy (10 October 2014). "A Fitting Nobel for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi". The New Yorker.
^ Lakshmi, Rama (10 October 2014). "Who is India's Kailash Satyarthi, the other Nobel Peace Prize winner?". The Washington Post.
^ Lake, Maggie (April 18, 2011). "Is your rug slave-free? Goodweave USA is trying to put a stop to child slave labor practices in Asian rug factories". CNN. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
^ "7 Questions - Nina Smith (GoodWeave USA)". 19 October 2010.
^ Lazaro, Fred De Sam (July 31, 2013). "Organization Fights to Unravel India's Widespread Child Labor Abuses". PBS. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
^ Fornoff, Susan (September 27, 2006). "Righteous carpet making". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
^ Balch, Oliver (August 15, 2013). "Child labour can't be carpeted over by a logo, but it's a step in the right direction". The Guardian.
^ "A Seal of Approval to Protect Children". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia. September 6, 1996. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
^ "Slavery - Kate Blewitt and Brian Woods". Belfast. September 28, 2000. Channel 4 News. {{cite episode}}: Missing or empty |series= (help)
^ Goodweave International, GoodWeave International Generic Standard, accessed 4 January 2021

External links

GoodWeave International website

[1] Rugmark

[The_Guardian-2] Chonghaile, Clar Ni (10 October 2014). "Kailash Satyarthi: student engineer who saved 80,000 children from slavery". The Guardian.

[The_New_Yorker-3] Davidson, Amy (10 October 2014). "A Fitting Nobel for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi". The New Yorker.

[Washington_Post-4] Lakshmi, Rama (10 October 2014). "Who is India's Kailash Satyarthi, the other Nobel Peace Prize winner?". The Washington Post.

[CNN-5] Lake, Maggie (April 18, 2011). "Is your rug slave-free? Goodweave USA is trying to put a stop to child slave labor practices in Asian rug factories". CNN. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2014.

[6] "7 Questions - Nina Smith (GoodWeave USA)". 19 October 2010.

[PBS-7] Lazaro, Fred De Sam (July 31, 2013). "Organization Fights to Unravel India's Widespread Child Labor Abuses". PBS. Retrieved October 25, 2014.

[8] Fornoff, Susan (September 27, 2006). "Righteous carpet making". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2011.

[9] Balch, Oliver (August 15, 2013). "Child labour can't be carpeted over by a logo, but it's a step in the right direction". The Guardian.

[10] "A Seal of Approval to Protect Children". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia. September 6, 1996. Retrieved March 23, 2011.

[11] "Slavery - Kate Blewitt and Brian Woods". Belfast. September 28, 2000. Channel 4 News. {{cite episode}}: Missing or empty |series= (help)

[12] Goodweave International, GoodWeave International Generic Standard, accessed 4 January 2021

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+'''GoodWeave International''' (formerly known as '''Rugmark''')<ref>[https://rugmarkindia.de/ Rugmark]</ref> is a network of [[non-profit organization]]s dedicated to ending illegal [[child labour]] in the [[rug making]] industry. Founded in 1994 by [[children's rights]] activist and [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner [[Kailash Satyarthi]],<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/10/kailash-satyarthi-nobel-peace-prize-childrens-rights|title=Kailash Satyarthi: student engineer who saved 80,000 children from slavery|last=Chonghaile|first=Clar Ni|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=10 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="The New Yorker">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/malala-yousafzai-nobel-prize|title=A Fitting Nobel for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi|last=Davidson|first=Amy|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=10 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Washington Post">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/10/who-is-indias-kailash-satyarthi-the-other-nobel-peace-prize-winner|title=Who is India's Kailash Satyarthi, the other Nobel Peace Prize winner?|last=Lakshmi|first=Rama|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=10 October 2014}}</ref> it provides a certification program that allows companies that pass inspection to attach a logo certifying that their product is made without child labour.<ref name="CNN">{{cite news|url=http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/18/is-your-rug-slave-free/|title=Is your rug slave-free? Goodweave USA is trying to put a stop to child slave labor practices in Asian rug factories|last=Lake|first=Maggie|date=April 18, 2011|work=[[CNN]]|access-date=October 25, 2014|archive-date=October 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005202730/https://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/18/is-your-rug-slave-free/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is an example of a product-oriented  [[multistakeholder governance model|multistakeholder governance group]].
-<b>Rugmark India – Carpets Without Illegal Child Labour</b>
+Nina Smith, Executive Director of GoodWeave International explains:
-Rugmark Foundation India is the founder of the whole Rugmark system.
+{{cquote|I got involved in the movement to end child slavery because of a boy named [[Iqbal Masih]]. Iqbal was a carpet slave at the age of four and escaped servitude at 10. (...) Upon his return to [[Pakistan]], Iqbal’s life was tragically cut short: he was murdered for his activism. His death helped to inspire the birth of GoodWeave (then RugMark). I read Iqbal’s story in a [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] feature after his death and realized the work that needed to be done in his memory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cfp-dc.org/blog/2010/10/19/7-questions-nina-smith-goodweave-usa/|title = 7 Questions - Nina Smith (GoodWeave USA)| date=19 October 2010 }}</ref>}}
+==Media coverage==
-We introduced the regular control and supervision system in the early nineties. Since then we have been continuously carrying out systematic controls. RUGMARK Foundation, India was incorporated in September 1994 under sec. 25 of the Indian Companies Act of 1956, as a private, voluntary, non-profit entity.
+Media outlets worldwide have given detailed coverage to Rugmark (now known as GoodWeave). For example, ''The [[PBS NewsHour]]'' reported, "GoodWeave offers a labeling system that guarantees that no child labor was used in making the rugs."<ref name="PBS">{{Cite news
+  | last = Lazaro
+  | first = Fred De Sam
+  | title = Organization Fights to Unravel India's Widespread Child Labor Abuses
+  | work = [[PBS]]
+  | date = July 31, 2013
+  | url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world-july-dec13-india_07-31/
+  | accessdate = October 25, 2014}}</ref> According to the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', the organization "has helped drastically reform the hand-knotted carpet industry in [[India]], [[Nepal]] and [[Pakistan]]"<ref>{{Cite news
+  | last = Fornoff
+  | first = Susan
+  | title = Righteous carpet making
+  | newspaper = [[San Francisco Chronicle]]
+  | location = [[San Francisco]]
+  | date = September 27, 2006
+  | url = https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Righteous-carpet-making-Rugmark-asks-buyers-to-2550619.php
+  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120118171254/http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-09-27/home-and-garden/17312790_1_rug-buyers-interior-designers-rugmark
+  | url-status = live
+  | archive-date = January 18, 2012
+  | access-date = March 23, 2011}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'' said, "GoodWeave's model centres on extensive monitoring and auditing at every stage of the supply chain,"<ref>{{Cite news
+  | last = Balch
+  | first = Oliver
+  | title = Child labour can't be carpeted over by a logo, but it's a step in the right direction
+  | work = [[The Guardian]]
+  | date = August 15, 2013
+  | url = https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/aug/15/child-labour-product-certification
+}}</ref> ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' concluded, "Rugmark is not just a symbol of quality. Its appearance on imported hand-knotted rugs is intended as a signal to consumers that child labor was not used in the production process."<ref>{{Cite news
+  | title = A Seal of Approval to Protect Children
+  | newspaper = [[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]
+  | location = [[Philadelphia]]
+  | date = September 6, 1996
+  | url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB32DB2172EE887&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
+  | accessdate = March 23, 2011}}</ref>  Channel 4 News in [[Belfast]] observed, "Rugmark is the best scheme for ensuring that carpets are slave free".<ref>{{Cite episode
+| title        = Slavery - Kate Blewitt and Brian Woods
+| network      = Channel 4 News
+| location         = [[Belfast]]
+| airdate      = September 28, 2000
+}}</ref>
+Responding to concern about violation of [[children’s rights]] during the 1980s, [[human rights]] organizations in Europe and India, along with [[UNICEF]]-India and the Indo-German Export Promotion Council, a German government agency, developed the program to provide assurance to consumers that the [[Oriental rug|oriental carpets]] they were purchasing were made by adults rather than exploited children, and to provide for the long term educational and rehabilitation of children found working illegally on [[loom]]s. The program was formally launched in India in the fall of 1994 and expanded into Nepal in 1996. Thereafter, negotiations with programs in Germany, Nepal, India, and the U.S. resulted in the formal creation of Rugmark International. An international constitution was adopted in May 1998.
-The Chairperson is Mrs. Maneka Gandhi – Member of Parliament (former Union Minister of Environment and Forests, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, and Minister for Culture)
+==Goodweave standard==
-To provide quality education to children freed from child labour, RUGMARK is running 6 schools and a Rehabilitation Center (Balashrya) in the carpet belt of India. The children are getting formal education free of cost, apart from basic vocational training in different trades in the RUGMARK Schools. They are provided with free uniforms, books, notebooks and stationery. Medical care is provided by a doctor who goes around with a small medical van. This work is extended to many villages by organization of regular health camps with provision of medicines and needed medical devices.
+Rugmark International re-branded the certification program and introduced the GoodWeave standard-based certification label in 2009. The organization was also re-branded as GoodWeave International. Certification requires assessment against three generic principles and sector-specific principles covering either carpets or home textiles as applicable. The generic standards are:
+*Principle A1: No child labor is allowed
+*Principle A2: No forced or bonded labor is allowed
+*Principle A3: Conditions of work are documented and verifiable.<ref>Goodweave International, [https://goodweave.org/proven-approach/standard/ GoodWeave International Generic Standard], accessed 4 January 2021</ref>
+Today the international network comprises producing country offices in India, Nepal and Afghanistan; and consumer country programs in the [[United States|US]], [[United Kingdom|UK]], and [[Germany]]. GoodWeave International is responsible for licensing throughout Europe and North America.
-Nearly 10 million carpet have been labelled and exported from India till December 2009.
-Rugmark India is working very well and has not the slightest intention to reduce its work or to change it. The There are some persons/entities that are trying to hijack. They have been campaigning to give the impression to manufacturers, exporters and buyers that we are voluntarily handing over our system to them. This was and is absolutely baseless.
-RUGMARK INDIA is NOT FINANCED BY DONATIONS, but by the support of its members (exporters and importers). It is independent.
-<b>The Rugmark labels are issued only by Rugmark India and there is no substitute of Rugmark label.</b>
-==History==
-Responding to concern about violation of children’s rights during the eighties, human rights organizations in Europe and India, along with UNICEF-India and the Indo-German Export Promotion Council, a German government agency, developed the Rugmark program to provide assurance to consumers that the oriental carpets they were purchasing were made by adults rather than exploited children, and to provide for the long term educational and rehabilitation of children found working illegally on looms. Rugmark was formally launched in India in the fall of 1994.
-==How RugMark works==
-The Rugmark labeling initiative operates through a network of licensed rug exporters and importers. All licensed exporters and importers are charged a license fee for the use of the Rugmark labels, and the fees generated are used to fund the system of random inspections and welfare, education and rehabilitation projects.‎‎
-Rugmark producer country offices establish license agreements with exporters. They agree to the following terms:
-• not to illegally employ children
-• to allow unannounced, random inspections by Rugmark inspectors
-• to pay fair adult wages
-• to notify Rugmark of all sales of labeled carpets
-Rugmark's trained inspection teams carry out random unannounced inspections of village looms and factories to make sure that the conditions of the license agreement are being adhered to.
-Each exported rug is individually numbered, enabling its origin to be traced back to the loom where it was produced. This prevents counterfeit labeling.
 ==References==
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-== External links ==
+==External links==
-* [http://www.rugmarkindia.org Rugmark's web site]
+* [http://www.goodweave.org GoodWeave International website]
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