India: IKEA Pledges $10M to Fight Child Labor in India's Cotton Fields - IndiaWest - International Initiative to End Child Labor

India: IKEA Pledges $10M to Fight Child Labor in India’s Cotton Fields – IndiaWest

Posted June 5, 2012

In Agriculture, child labor, child labor in agriculture, Child labor in cotton, Child Labor News, Children in the Fields, Corporate Social Responsibility, Hazardous Labor, worst forms child labor

Children make up much of the cotton picking labor pool in many Indian states. (UNICEF photo) The IKEA Foundation announced May 15 that it has pledged $10 million to Save The Children, India, to end child labor in the country’s cotton industry, …
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