Goodweave International

Establish Transparent and Clean Supply Chains:Inspection, Monitoring and Certification:GoodWeave certification offers the best assurance that rugs and home textile products are made without the use of child and forced labor. GoodWeave's inspection system is the only one that reaches all levels of the supply chain, including and especially informal manufacturing sites. In 2024, GoodWeave's national inspection teams in South Asia reached 126,743 workers through monitoring visits to facilities, which also resulted in 1.15 million rugs and home textiles certified as child-labor-free. See Schedule O for Continuation

Create Educational Opportunities for Children: In 2024, GoodWeave directly provided educational opportunities to 37,815 children. GoodWeave teams in India and Nepal have continued to innovate program design, introducing education programs ranging from daycare and other early childhood education in Nepal to entire Child Friendly Communities (or CFCs) in dozens of informal worker communities across northern India. While the implementation model, scope, and scale varies from community to community, the strategy behind CFCs remains the same. These programs are designed with input from survivors of child labor and those proximate to community needs in order to serve at-risk children and workers and tackle the root causes of labor abuse.

Improve Conditions for all Workers:Addressing child labor effectively requires more than simply prohibiting the practice as a matter of law, policy, or standard. One important part of the equation is ensuring that adult workers are better compensated and treated within their workplaces. GoodWeave seeks to improve conditions for at-risk workers, extending to 7,297 workers in supply chains in 2024 a range of services such as eye screenings and treatments, general health clinics, and rights awareness sessions.

Promote Best Practice:The organization also conducts advocacy, promotes best practices, and builds capacity within other key actors based on our unique and effective model. Additionally, we conduct research and serve as a thought leader to help inform and educate companies, governments, and other systemic supply chain actors about how to address child and forced labor and their root causes effectively. Research initiatives conducted in 2024 to be published in 2025 include a study on child and forced labor risk in apparel supply chains in Bangladesh, and a study on potential links between climate change impacts and child and forced labor risk in the carpet and brick sectors in Nepal.In 2024, GoodWeave continued to participate in numerous high-level events and platforms to advocate for ending child and forced labor through business uptake of deep due diligence practices that map supply chains fully, apply strong human rights standards, ensure remedy for rights-holders, and tackle root causes. Such advocacy included speaking roles at the OECD Forum on Due Diligence in Apparel and Footwear.In 2024 and 2025, GoodWeave also made demonstrable progress on multi-year projects supported by the Netherlands (RVO) and the United Kingdom (Modern Slavery Innovation Fund) to assess and address child and forced labor risk in subcontracted apparel supply chain worksites in Bangladesh. Partnering with multinational apparel brands C&A and Delta Galil, the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, and the Bangladesh Labour Foundation, this research, advocacy, and capacity building work has begun to educate and transform the behavior of influential public and private sector actors about these risks in the hidden tiers of supply chains in the world's 2nd largest apparel exporting country.