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Report: Gap Kids Using Child Labor in India

HeadlineOct 29, 2007

In other news from India, the Observer newspaper of Britain has revealed that child workers as young as 10 years old are being forced to work in textile sweatshops in India to produce clothes sold by Gap Kids. Children described to the paper working long hours without pay, as well as threats and beatings. Gap has said it will investigate the allegations.

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