Activists Stage Flash “Faint-Ins” at H&M, Gap to Protest Sweatshop Conditions
… Dozens of human-rights activists are staging flash “faint-ins” at high-street retailers across Europe to illustrate the high incidence of mass fainting in Cambodia’s apparel factories. Protestors from the Clean Clothes Campaign, an alliance of organizations in 15 European countries dedicated to improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries, collapsed on the floors of H&M, Gap, Levi’s, and Zara stores in London, Warsaw, Copenhagen, and Paris on Wednesday to highlight the effects of poverty pay, malnutrition, and unsafe workplace conditions endemic to the Southeast Asian nation…
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