Human Rights Group Slams Kardashians In Sweatshop Scandal
Dec. 24 2011, Published 5:00 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
The Kardashians have reacted angrily since Breaking Celebrity News and Star magazine first broke the story about some of their fashion lines being manufactured in Chinese sweatshops, and they're not going to be any happier with a scathing statement issued late Friday by the prestigious Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.
The international human rights organization is slamming the Kardashian women for manufacturing some of their lines in China where wages and working conditions are known to be deplorable.
When the story initially broke, the Kardashians put out a statement that they were "going to investigate" the allegations, and then hours later, another one claiming they HAD investigated and everything was just fine.
But the backlash continued, which led to a report on a non-credible website, quoting an anonymous source as saying they were going to sue the human rights investigator! Even that bully tactic failed to stop the backlash, though.
The Kardashians continued to deny the allegations but without offering any proof they knew what was going on in their own factories, despite documented reports that Bebe, a product line they endorsed and profited from, treated workers as virtual slaves. In fact, the organization, China Labor Watch, specifically criticized the Kardashians in its report on Bebe.
What's more Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned the Kardashians have never even been to their own factories! Not even the ones that manufacture clothes for Bebe.
In the hope of bringing the Kardashians around to the idea of abandoning the Chinese sweatshop trade, the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, is imploring the family to become educated as