To: ENTERTAINMENT, FASHION AND NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Barbara Briggs of a Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, +1-412-417-9384
NEW YORK and PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a matter by Charles Kernaghan, Director of a Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, per allegations of sweatshop abuses in a prolongation of Kim Kardashian's wardrobe and other product lines in China:
China is not like a United States. In China there are no human rights, no eremite freedom, no workman or women's rights, no leisure of debate and positively no domestic freedoms. China is a total state.
When celebrities like Kim Kardashian confirm to source their prolongation in China, they contingency comprehend that they are starting out on a really low rung, maybe during a bottom, when it comes to honour for fundamental, internationally concluded on tellurian and labor rights.
We would like to ask Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities: Why is it that they censor their factories in China? Why is it that they exclude to yield a American people with a names and addresses of their retailer factories? What are they fearful of?
When it comes to their profits, Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities direct all sorts of enforceable laws -- egghead skill and copyright laws, corroborated adult by sanctions -- to strengthen their trade noted goods. If someone creates a knock-off of a Kardashian garment, that chairman will be tracked down, prosecuted and do genuine jail time. However, when it comes to authorised workman rights protections in China, there are none. What Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities offer a workers are intentional corporate codes of conduct, that never work. Corporate codes of control are a open family fume shade to fake that workers have rights. The existence is that Ms. Kardashian's garments, purses and other products are being protected, though not a tellurian beings in China who done them.
To give a petrify example, only a few days ago we perceived a in Guangdong Province in China. The bureau is producing Hasbro's renouned Transformer toys. Hasbro says that they have a intentional formula of control that guarantees that a immature Chinese workers are treated with honour and afforded all authorised rights. But when we interviewed a immature Chinese workers, they told us a really opposite story. They pronounced they were trapped in a hell-hole. The workers were housed 12 to a room in dirty dorms, that were filthy with rats and bed bugs. The workers were so tortured by a bed bug bites that they were incompetent to nap during night. During a rise season, they worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Summer temperatures reached 104 degrees, withdrawal a workers soaked in their possess sweat. Workers were beaten and mostly taboo from holding lavatory breaks. The workers described a bureau food "fit for hog feed." They warranted a take-home salary of 92 cents an hour and approximately $32 a week.
Or take a demeanour during smuggled out of a . They uncover tired immature teenaged workers slumped over their public line during their 10-minute break, surrounded by piles of Microsoft products! (By a way, and other nonprofit organizations for doing some-more to foster honour for workers rights in China, some-more than all U.S. companies put together).
Isn't it peculiar that year after year a American people spend scarcely $100 billion on clothing, shoes, accessories, sporting goods, electronic and other products done in China--and nonetheless we have never, not even once, had a event to accommodate with a workman from China? This is not by chance. If a Chinese workman dared to pronounce a truth, we would never see that chairman again.
If Ms. Kardashian has found a approach to overcome a iron-fisted hang-up underneath that a Chinese workers are forced to toil, afterwards that would be outrageous news and estimable of extensive applause. But unfortunately, formed on a petrify practice questioning factories in China and elsewhere, a chances are about one in a million that Ms. Kardashian has found a approach to pull behind opposite a Chinese authorities and pledge that her employees will be afforded their many basic, internationally famous workers' rights.
It is unhappy that such good know celebrities like Ms. Kardashian and others, who have both happening and power, continue to burst conduct initial into a competition to a bottom in a tellurian sweatshop economy by rushing to source their prolongation to China.
Wouldn't it be extraordinary if Ms. Kardashian stood adult and pronounced she would keep her prolongation in a United States? God knows we need a jobs. This would be a shot listened around a world. Yes, by doing so a luminary competence take a 25-cent per mantle cut in her distinction margin, though she would still acquire a lot of money. Such a luminary would be an implausible purpose model. Imagine products done underneath benevolent conditions. This is something a American people would applaud!
Report on a Jet Fair bureau in China: "Holidays by Hasbro, Transformers from Hell"
Report on a KYE bureau in China: "China's Youth Meet Microsoft"
Photos from KYE
Forbes Magazine article
SOURCE Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights
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