Kathie Lee Gifford, who endured a child sweatshop scandal over her clothing line at Wal-Mart in the 90s, called her very good friend, Kris Jenner, after allegations surfaced that several of the Kardashians’ products are produced in Chinese factories in horrific conditions, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

As RadarOnline.com and Star magazine previously reported, the Kardashian family is accused of endorsing and selling fashion products manufactured in foreign sweatshops, where workers, some as young as sixteen years old, are abused and virtually imprisoned.

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A prestigious human-rights watchdog organization has launched an investigation into America’s top TV family, with officials imploring the Kardashians not to profit from what amounts to “slave labor.”

A representative from American Manufacturing is disappointed that the Kardashian clan has their clothing and shoe collections produced in China, and not the United States.

The allegations about Kardashian products in this post have nothing to do with their products sold at Sears.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, a prestigious human-rights watchdog organization has launched an investigation into America’s top TV family, with officials imploring the Kardashians not to profit from what amounts to “slave labor.”

“The Kardashians are in bed with some pretty bad people,” Charles Kernaghan, the executive director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, tells Star.  “Not only are celebrities like the Kardashians taking advantage of these workers, they are holding hands with a government that spits on democracy and women’s rights.”