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'GoodWeave International' [[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 news|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|work=[[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|work=[[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]]}}</ref> |
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'''GoodWeave International''', formerly known as '''Rugmark''', 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 news|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|work=[[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|work=[[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]]}}</ref> |
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Nina Smith, Executive Director of GoodWeave International explains: |
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"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>[http://cfp-dc.org/blog/2010/10/19/7-questions-nina-smith-goodweave-usa/]</ref> |
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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 |
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| title = Organization Fights to Unravel India’s Widespread Child Labor Abuses |
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| date = July 31, 2013 |
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| url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world-july-dec13-india_07-31/ |
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| 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 |
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| title = Righteous carpet making |
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| newspaper = [[San Francisco Chronicle]] |
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| location = [[San Francisco]] |
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| date = September 27, 2006 |
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| url = http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-09-27/home-and-garden/17312790_1_rug-buyers-interior-designers-rugmark |
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| accessdate = 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 |
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| title = Child labour can't be carpeted over by a logo, but it's a step in the right direction |
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| work = [[The Guardian]] |
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| date = August 15, 2013 |
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| url = https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/aug/15/child-labour-product-certification |
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}}</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 |
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| title = A Seal of Approval to Protect Children |
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| newspaper = [[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |
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| location = [[Philadelphia]] |
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| date = September 6, 1996 |
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| 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 |
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| title = Slavery - Kate Blewitt and Brian Woods |
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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. |
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Rugmark International re-branded the certification program and introduced the GoodWeave label in 2009. The organization was also re-branded to GoodWeave International. 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. |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.goodweave.org GoodWeave International website] |
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[[Category:Business ethics organizations]] |
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[[Category:Development charities based in the United States]] |
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[[Category:Charities based in Washington, D.C.]] |
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[[Category:Fair trade organizations]] |
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[[Category:Child labour-related organizations]] |
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[[Category:Organizations established in 1994]] |
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[[Category:Foreign charities operating in India]] |
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[[Category:Foreign charities operating in Afghanistan]] |
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[[Category:Foreign charities operating in Nepal]] |
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Revision as of 06:42, 6 March 2019
'GoodWeave International' 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,[1][2][3] it provides a certification program that allows companies that pass inspection to attach a logo certifying that their product is made without child labour.[4]
- ^ 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.