The Kardashians have reacted angrily since RadarOnline.com and Star magazine first broke the story about some of their fashion lines being manufactured in Chinese sweatshops, and they're not going to be any happier with a scathing statement issued late Friday by the prestigious Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

The international human rights organization is slamming the Kardashian women for manufacturing some of their lines in China where wages and working conditions are known to be deplorable.

When the story initially broke, the Kardashians put out a statement that they were "going to investigate" the allegations, and then hours later, another one claiming they HAD investigated and everything was just fine.

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But the backlash continued, which led to a report on a non-credible website, quoting an anonymous source as saying they were going to sue the human rights investigator! Even that bully tactic failed to stop the backlash, though.

The Kardashians continued to deny the allegations but without offering any proof they knew what was going on in their own factories, despite documented reports that Bebe, a product line they endorsed and profited from, treated workers as virtual slaves. In fact, the organization, China Labor Watch, specifically criticized the Kardashians in its report on Bebe.

What's more RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned the Kardashians have never even been to their own factories! Not even the ones that manufacture clothes for Bebe.

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In the hope of bringing the Kardashians around to the idea of abandoning the Chinese sweatshop trade, the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, is imploring the family to become educated as to working conditions in China, and perhaps even move their manufacturing to the U.S.

Following is the statement by Charles Kernaghan, Director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights:

China is not like the United States. In China there are no human rights, no religious freedom, no worker or women's rights, no freedom of speech and certainly no political freedoms. China is a totalitarian state.

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When celebrities like Kim Kardashian decide to source their production in China, they must realize that they are starting out on a very low rung, perhaps at the bottom, when it comes to respect for fundamental, internationally agreed upon human and labor rights.

We would like to ask Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities: Why is it that they hide their factories in China? Why is it that they refuse to provide the American people with the names and addresses of their supplier factories? What are they afraid of?

When it comes to their profits, Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities demand all sorts of enforceable laws -- intellectual property and copyright laws, backed up by sanctions -- to protect their trade marked goods. If someone makes a knock-off of a Kardashian garment, that person will be tracked down, prosecuted and do real jail time. However, when it comes to legal worker rights protections in China, there are none. What Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities offer the workers are voluntary corporate codes of conduct, which never work. Corporate codes of conduct are a public relations smoke screen to pretend that workers have rights. The reality is that Ms. Kardashian's garments, purses and other products are being protected, but not the human beings in China who made them.

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To give a concrete example, just a few days ago we received a report on the Jet Fair Factory in Guangdong Province in China. [Workers] said they were trapped in a hell-hole. The workers were housed 12 to a room in filthy dorms, which were infested with rats and bed bugs. The workers were so tortured by the bed bug bites that they were unable to sleep at night. During the peak season, they worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Summer temperatures reached 104 degrees, leaving the workers drenched in their own sweat. Workers were beaten and often prohibited from taking bathroom breaks. The workers described the factory food "fit for swine feed." They earned a take-home wage of 92 cents an hour and approximately $32 a week.

Take a look at photographs smuggled out of [another] factory in China. They show exhausted young teenaged workers slumped over their assembly line during their 10-minute break. (By the way, Forbes Magazine credits the Institute and other nonprofit organizations for doing more to promote respect for workers rights in China, more than all U.S. corporations put together).

Isn't it odd that year after year the American people spend nearly $100 billion on clothing, shoes, accessories, sporting goods, electronic and other goods made in China--and yet we have never, not even once, had the opportunity to meet with a worker from China? This is not by chance. If a Chinese worker dared to speak the truth, we would never see that person again.
If Ms. Kardashian has found a way to overcome the iron-fisted repression under which the Chinese workers are forced to toil, then that would be huge news and worthy of tremendous applause. But unfortunately, based on our concrete experiences investigating factories in China and elsewhere, the chances are about one in a million that Ms. Kardashian has found a way to push back against the Chinese authorities and guarantee that her employees will be afforded their most basic, internationally recognized workers' rights.

It is sad that such well know celebrities like Ms. Kardashian and others, who have both fortune and power, continue to jump head first into the race to the bottom in the global sweatshop economy by rushing to source their production to China.

Wouldn't it be amazing if Ms. Kardashian stood up and said she would keep her production in the United States? God knows we need the jobs. This would be a shot heard around the world. Yes, by doing so a celebrity might take a 25-cent per garment cut in her profit margin, but she would still earn a lot of money. Such a celebrity would be an incredible role model. Imagine products made under humane conditions. This is something the American people would applaud!

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Short-tempered actor Christian Bale is no stranger to aggressive stand-offs but the latest violent incident he was involved in stemmed from his desire to support a Chinese activist, not an angry rant.

The Fighter star is currently in China for the premiere of his upcoming movie, The Flowers Of War, and while there he decided to make a special trip to meet a human rights activist, Chen Guangcheng, but the visit went awry when he and his CNN film crew got pushed around by the local police.

It took Bale eight hours to drive from Bejing to the tiny village in Eastern China where the blind 40-year-old self-taught lawyer has been held under house arrest for the past 15 months.

Hilary Swank got embroiled in a human rights outcry following her recent controversial visit to Chechnya and she is still battling the backlash.

The Oscar winning actress appears on the cover of the December/January issue of Gotham Magazine, and inside she attempts to explain her mistake by claiming she was there on a peaceful mission and didn't do enough research before accepting an overseas invitation.

“In this case, a Turkish real estate company invited me to help promote peace by celebrating the rebuilding of a war-torn city and meeting people who were rebuilding their lives," Swank revealed in an interview conducted by fellow actress, Mariska Hargitay.

Confessed killer Joran van der Sloot rejected a multi-million dollar interview offer from the media before making his startling decision to sue the government of Chile for $13 million, alleging his human rights were violated when they extradited him, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

The Dutch man is currently in a Lima, Peru prison awaiting trial for the murder of student Stephany Flores in May 2010, and remains the prime suspect in the killing of an Alabama teen in Aruba exactly five years earlier.

As van der Sloot hopes to cash in with a big pay day, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal that he recently turned down a whopping $2 million for an interview with a Dutch media outlet.

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