Is there any kind of law in any nation that says third world factories...

HEyHEY

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Mon Apr-11-05 05:15 PM
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Is there any kind of law in any nation that says third world factories...

Edited on Mon Apr-11-05 05:19 PM by HEyHEY

and working conditions must meet our standards before we'll allow companies to sell their goods here? THere should be.

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Terran1212

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Mon Apr-11-05 05:33 PM
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1. "Free Trade"

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robcon

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Mon Apr-11-05 05:42 PM
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2. As far as I know, the only consistent standard...

is that the products cannot be made by slave labor or prison labor.

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Career Prole

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Mon Apr-11-05 05:52 PM
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3. Good question! Here's some information on the subject

you might find interesting, HEyHEY...

http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/2003/10laborcafta.htm

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/nafta/nafta0401-03.htm#P339_43368

and Part III of http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm

It's all lip-service, I'm afraid. Slavery's still the end-game.

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