A UN report says fair - trade cotton has brought ` ` fresh incentives for exploitation '' The company that owns Victoria 's Secret promised to investigate the child labor allegation . The U.S. Labor Department says more than a dozen countries use child labor in cotton production . The program has attracted subsistence farmers who say they do n't have the resources to grow fair-trade cotton without violating a central principle of the movement : forcing other people 's children into their fields. The government says its program is aimed at helping some of the world 's poorest women .
A UN report says fair - trade cotton has brought ` ` fresh incentives for exploitation '' The company that owns Victoria 's Secret promised to investigate the child labor allegation . The U.S. Labor Department says more than a dozen countries use child labor in cotton production . The government says its program is aimed at helping some of the world 's poorest women .