What’s the difference between GoodWeave and other labeling initiatives?
There are other “child-labor-free” labels on some rugs. GoodWeave is the only independent monitoring and inspection program working in India and Nepal. The other labels might represent organizations running social programs, but these programs are philanthropic in scope, do not include random inspections and are administered by the industry itself rather than by an independent nonprofit. Rug exporters simply pay a fee to these organizations to receive “no child labor” labels without actual inspections in their factories/loom sheds. These labels do not provide the same level of assurance as the GoodWeave label. In addition, GoodWeave represents everyone involved in the South Asian carpet industry: manufacturers, importers, exporters, retailers and consumers. GoodWeave is funded by a variety of sources and is free from influence by any particular industry segment or individual government. Other labeling initiatives tend to represent single interest groups that see things from their own pe
