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		<webMaster>contact@trilogyinteractive.com (Trilogy Interactive)</webMaster>                
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			<title>Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights Reacts to Recent Allegations of Sweatshop Labor in Celebrity Product Lines  </title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0370</link>
			<description>We would like to ask Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities:  Why is it that they hide their factories in China?  Why is it that they refuse to provide the American people with the names and addresses of their supplier factories?  What are they afraid of?</description>
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			<title>New Report: Hasbro Transformer toys made in miserable sweatshop conditions</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0369</link>
			<description>aEURoeI challenge HasbroaEUR(TM)s executives to imagine their own sons and daughters working under such miserable sweatshop conditions,aEUR? said Institute director Charles Kernaghan. aEURoeIt does not have to be this way.aEUR?</description>
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			<title>Avances en Style Avenue en El Salvador</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0371</link>
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			<title>El Salvador: Victory at Style Avenue / Dallas Cowboys Caught in Sweatshop</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0367</link>
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			<title>Breakthrough at Style Avenue in El Salvador Producing Licensed Collegiate Clothing</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0366</link>
			<description>After the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights and the Salvadoran union FEASIES exposed serious worker rights violations at Style Avenue, the collegiate labels producing in the factory committed to an extensive remediation plan to end the violations, improve working conditions and finally bring Style Avenue into compliance with Salvadoran labor law.</description>
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			<title>How's this for corporate greed by the one-percenters?</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0365</link>
			<description>Corporate greed is driving the race to the bottom in the global sweatshop economy, pitting American workers against desperately poor workers across the developing world, based on who will accept the lowest wages, least benefits and most miserable living and working conditions. Please help! Fight Back! Become a member of the Institute!</description>
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			<title>Protect U.S. Jobs: Stop China's Illegal Currency Manipulation</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0364</link>
			<description>Please sign this petition to the Obama Administration to protect U.S. jobs.</description>
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			<title>The Cowboys Have It Wrong</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0363</link>
			<description>Style Avenue workers confirm with 100 percent certainty that they sewed aEURoeDallas Cowboys FootballaEUR? baby creepers in July and August 2011.  It would be important for the Dallas Cowboys Merchandizing Corporation to acknowledge  and support the legal rights of workers sewing their garments across Central AmericaaEUR"their right to organize independent unions and to a collective contract.  </description>
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			<title>Dallas Cowboys, Ohio State and Wal-Mart Caught in Sweatshop Scandal</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0362</link>
			<description>The Dallas Cowboys and Ohio State University and Wal-Mart are implicated in a sweatshop scandal, producing their licensed goods at an illegal sweatshop in El Salvador, where women are just paid pennies per garment and stripped of their rights.</description>
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			<title>Jordan Slips Back into Human Trafficking at Chinese-owned Maintrend Sweatshop producing for SearsaEUR(TM) Lands End</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0360</link>
			<description>Police have forcibly entered a factory where women were on strike to protest beatings and abhorrent working and living conditions.  Police tear-gassed and beat the women.  The workers had tried to file an official complaint only to be denied entry at the Jordanian Labor Court.  All the while, the factory where they work has been given aEURoeGold ListaEUR? status.</description>
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