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CAMPAIGN TO END CHILD LABOR
 

The Most Beautiful Rug
RugMark’s Campaign
to End Child Labor

Nearly 300,000 children are exploited in the carpet industry in South Asia to weave carpets for American homes. The Most Beautiful Rug: RugMark's Campaign to End Child Labor is designed to put an end to this practice by educating consumers, interior designers and the carpet industry about child-labor-free rugs.
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Child Labor+Carpet Industry

The handmade carpet industry in South Asia is a major "employer" of child labor. Children are kidnapped, trafficked or sold into debt bondage or forced labor.
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04/16/2009 Washington, DC - RugMark’s nationally touring Faces of Freedom photography exhibit makes its West Coast debut at the San Francisco Design Center May 13 to June 13. This collection of black and white and color photographs, taken by acclaimed documentary photographer U. Roberto Romano in South Asia, depict illegal child labor in the handmade rug industry and RugMark’s innovative child-labor- free rug certification program designed to eradicate it.  More>
03/19/2009 Washington, DC - On the heels of its new showroom opening, Robin Gray Design has joined the 60-plus companies partnering with RugMark to put an end to child labor in the handmade rug industry.  More>
03/10/2009 Washington, DC - Seven North American rug companies recently joined RugMark to help put an end to exploitive child labor in the handmade rug industry. NIBA Rug Collections and The Rug Studio, along with Apeiron, Custom Cool, Dai Living, Layne Goldsmith , and Sara Schneidman, bring the number of licensees to 62, whose RugMark certified rugs currently account for more than 3% of the handmade rugs sold in the U.S.  More>

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Child Labor
Child labor is a crime committed against nearly 220 million children, or one in every seven, ages 5-17, around the world. They are forced to work, sometimes as child laborers, sometimes as virtual slaves. This practice is illegal and just plain wrong.

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Children's Stories
Laxmi Shrestha
After a landslide destroyed Laxmi Shrestha's home, the 6-year-old went to work in a carpet factory in Nepal.  More >
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