fair trade news: Chinese Labor Camps

fair trade news

“The decorations came in a $29 ‘Totally Ghoul’ toy set that Keith purchased in a local Kmart store in 2011. When she opened the package before Halloween last year, a letter fell out.

In broken English mixed with Chinese, the author cried for help: ‘If you occasionally (sic) buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people here… will thank and remember you forever.’

The letter went on to detail grueling hours, verbal and physical abuses as well as torture that inmates making the products had to endure — all in a place called Masanjia Labor Camp in China.”

– from Chinese labor camp inmate tells of true horror of Halloween ‘SOS’, CNN

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Leah Wise is a member of FIRE in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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