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Article: UNITED STATES: TV HOST ALLOWS MONITORS AT CENTRAL AMERICAN PLANTS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- May 24, 1996
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Farhan Haq
Inter Press Service English News Wire
05-24-1996
NEW YORK, May 23 (IPS) -- U.S. labor activists are praising a
decision by a popular U.S. television host to allow human rights
monitors at Central American factories where her special clothing
line is made as a breakthrough in improving working conditions.
Kathie Lee Gifford, host of the popular ABC show "Live with
Regis and Kathie Lee," decided to allow independent monitoring of
plants where a special line of "Kathie Lee" clothing is
manufactured following reports that girls as young as 13 were
forced to work long hours under armed guard at the factories.
Now, Gifford says, she intends to make amends for the poor
conditions which ...