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Angela Adams creates quality hand-tufted rugs made with 100% New Zealand wool. Her beautiful modern rugs come in many designs and patterns. Featuring op art, geometrics, bold patterns and designs inspired by nature.

They are made in India by an affiliate of RugMark, an international nonprofit devoted to building schools, programs and opportunities that end child labor in the hand-made carpet industry in South Asia. The RugMark label guarantees that no child labor was used to produce the carpet or rug.

Anti-child labor organizations have grown and have gained enough international support to declare some victories: child carpet weavers in South Asia have declined from one million in 1995 to an estimated 300,000 today; the ILO Convention 182 on the “Worst Forms of Child Labor” passed in 1999; and the Trade and Development Act of 2000 clarifies that the U.S. ban on articles made with forced and/or indentured labor include goods made with forced or indentured child labor.

Click here to see how you can get involved to end child labor.