Most Auditors in Asia Find Child Labor in Supply Chains, Survey Finds
The Center for Child Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility (CCR CSR) reported that 64% of manufacturing auditors found signs of child labor during their site inspections. These auditors were inspecting companies based in China, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, India and Bangladesh. Out of the 557 auditors included in CCR CSR’s poll, 385 of them were looking at Chinese based companies. These auditors found that the two driving factors behind child labor were poverty and children dropping out of school. The International Labour Organization estimates that in the Asia Pacific alone, approximately 122 million children under the age of fifteen are victims of child labor.
See "Most Auditors in Asia Find Child Labor in Supply Chains, Survey Finds", The New York Times, June 22, 2016