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12 May 2009

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Child Labor Alleged at Factory [China]

Members of a Chinese minority group sent to work in a shoe factory thousands of miles from home include children, with some parents allegedly coerced into letting them go...The workers...are employed at Longfa Shoe Factory in China’s southeastern Guangdong province...Longfa Shoe Factory is owned by Taiwan-based Dean Shoes...which supplies Oregon-based U.S. footwear giant Nike...Spokesmen for Nike and for Longfa Shoe Factory denied the allegation and said hiring underage workers would violate company policies.