Rugmark Foundation USA

Child labor is a crime committed against nearly 220 million children, or one in every six, around the world. They are forced to work, sometimes as child laborers, sometimes as virtual slaves. An estimated 300,000 are toiling on South Asian looms today. RugMark was founded to address the scourge of child labor in rug production by certifying rugs carrying the RugMark label were produced without child labor. In September of 2009, RugMark introduced the GoodWeave label, which replaced the RugMark label on the back of rugs. The new label still stands for a deep commitment to the deterrence of child labor and the education and rehabilitation of rescued child workers in the carpet industries of India and Nepal, but also represents an enhanced set of values coinciding with the expansion of the label's humanitarian and environmental certification criteria.

www.goodweave.org