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Article: FINLAND: OLYMPIC COMMITTEE EMPLOYS CHINESE SWEATSHOPS

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June 21, 2007
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Linus Atarah
Inter Press Service English News Wire
06-21-2007
HELSINKI, Finland, Jun. 20, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- An international
coalition of trade unions and nongovernmental organizations has
accused the International Olympic Committee of allowing child labor
to be used in the production of merchandise for the upcoming
Beijing Olympics.
In a report released last week, Play Fair 2008 accused the
committee that organizes the games of condoning -- through its
complicit silence -- widespread violations of fundamental labor
standards in factories producing goods under the committee's
license.
The committee has consistently maintained that it is not
responsible for monitoring labor conditions in the ...

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