Example in Action: GoodWeave Certification Program

A woman in a blue headscarf wearing a mask and using a hand loom to weave
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  • For 25 years, GoodWeave has worked to stop child labor in global supply chains. With more than 170 brand partners and 25 percent of international market share, GoodWeave’s market-based model has transformed South Asia’s handmade carpet sector, where child labor has dropped from 1 million victims in 1995 to an estimated 200,000 today.
  • GoodWeave encourages market demand for child labor-free certified rugs and home textiles and helps businesses meet that demand.
  • Learn more about how GoodWeave’s work helps companies and NGOs in GoodWeave’s Best Practice Series to Eliminate Child Labor in Global Supply Chains at goodweave.org.

DOL welcomes examples of good practices 
to address child labor and forced labor. 

Email us at GlobalKids@dol.gov.