Tell Walmart to Stop Rape and Torture of Women in its Factories

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 Tell Walmart to Stop Rape and Torture of Young Women in its Factories


Background | From Change

Scores of young Sri Lankan women guest workers have been sexually abused and repeatedly raped, over the course of years, while sewing clothing for Wal-Mart, Hanes, Target, Macy’s, Lands’ End and other labels at the Classic Factory in Jordan.

Please tell Wal-Mart, Hanes, Target, Macy’s, Lands’ End, Kohl’s and Jones Group to immediately end the sexual abuse, rape, torture, and beatings of young women guest workers at the Classic factory in Jordan.

We demand that the companies:

•  Immediately remove all serial rapists, especially Anil Santha and Priyantha, from the Classic factory;
•  Pay significant compensation to the rape victims for the damages done them;
• Ensure that independent and highly respected non-governmental women’s rights organizations from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have complete access to monitor factory conditions;
• Guarantee that there will be no retaliation against any worker for speaking the truth about factory conditions;
• Ensure that the false charges against the internationally respected human rights advocate, Mr. Rafiq Alam, must be immediately dropped;
• If Classic refuses to strictly enforce the worker’s rights laws in the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement, their sweatshop garments should be prohibited from entering the U.S.

Classic/Jordan—Sweatshop Abuse, Sexual Predators – Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights

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Key press, from Institute for Human Labour and Global Rights:

Wall Street Journal. Sex Abuse Alleged at Apparel Maker. 20 June 2011.

RT, Thom Hartmann. Sexual Predators and Serial Rapists Run Wild in Free Trade. 13 June 2011. [Video and Transcripts]

Huffington Post. Major American Brands Silent on Alleged Rights Abuses at Overseas Factories.

Related: Human Rights

attention walmart
your shoppers care
and will not tolerate
rape anywhere!!!!

Karen Lyons Kalmenson