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Article

20 Oct 2004

Author:
Christopher Moore, Daily News Tribune [USA]

Garment workers tell of sweatshop conditions [Bangladesh]

Two teenage garment factory workers from Bangladesh spoke at Brandeis University yesterday about the mistreatment and abject poverty they experienced while making clothes that human rights activists say end up at Wal-Mart stores...Wal-Mart's corporate headquarters was not immediately available for comment. [also refers to GAP, Levi-Strauss, Liz Claiborne, Sears, Van Heusen, for signing a pledge guaranteeing paid maternity leave to any employee in their Bangladesh factories]