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Australia Revokes 18-Year-Old Anti-Sweatshop Program

March 26th, 2015 | Comments Off on Australia Revokes 18-Year-Old Anti-Sweatshop Program »

Australia’s federal government is withdrawing its support from a longstanding program that protects the country’s garment workers from sweatshop exploitation. The move, a victim of budget cuts, effectively puts an end to Ethical Clothing Australia, a joint industry-union initiative that relies on the government’s annual $925,000 largesse to stamp out human-rights abuses in the local […]