December, 19 2011
Hasbro is open to the hiring of 14 and 15-year-olds on a "case-by-case basis" at a Chinese toy supplier factory where workers toil 12-hour shifts to assembly Transformers models.
December, 09 2011
December, 08 2011
NFL Dallas Cowboys and College Kids creepers for infants and toddlers were sewn at the Apple Tree sweatshop in El Salvador.
October, 13 2011
October, 12 2011
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.
August, 27 2011
Over 370 guest workers from Bangladesh, sewing clothing for Hanes, Perry Ellis strike the Chinese-owned IBGM sweatshop over miserable and illegal working conditions.
August, 05 2011
Alleged rapist back to the factory; witness of alleged rape threatened; international human rights activist detained by the Jordanian police--Read the Institute's latest update to see why existing monitoring and judicial mechanisms won't work.
June, 24 2011
Young women guest workers from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are being repeatedly sexually abused at the Classic Group of factories in Jordan while sewing Hanes "C9" clothing for women and men, which is sold exclusively at Target.
June, 13 2011
Reminiscent of slavery, young women flee, running away from the 93 hour work week at the Rich Pine Factory, sewing clothing for Liz Claiborne, Macy's, Kohl's, Ralph Lauren, Hudson Bay, and others.
June, 07 2011
Young women workers from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are raped, tortured and beaten at the Classic Factory in Jordan while producing clothing for Hanes, Target, Macy's ,Wal-mart and Sears.
Write to Disney, Hasbro, Mattel and other multinational companies producing children's toys under harsh sweatshop conditions.
Bangladesh’s shipbreaking workers need our help and support. Please sign this letter, which will be delivered to United States Trade Representative Michael Froman.
Some 1,800 Chinese workers in the Dongguan Zhenyang Wanju factory in Guangdong produce toys for Disney, Mattel, Hasbro and other international brands under harsh conditions, stripped of their rights, their dignity, their voice and basic justice.
Shipbreaking workers in Bangladesh toil 12-hours a day at one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. They are consistently injured and killed on the job because of a lack of safety equipment, job training, and legal rights.
Nike is truly the canary in the coal mine, pointing us to what unfettered “free trade” looks like, and what the world will look like under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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