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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In a world exclusive exposé Star magazine revealed that several of the brands sold and endorsed by the Kardashian family are manufactured in China under sweatshop conditions, sometimes by employees as young as 16 years old.

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

One of the brands, ShoeDazzle, has denied all allegations, insisting they have a full time employee living in the Chinese region of Guangdong that checks on working conditions daily, and that, "Factories are routinely inspected and always pass inspection."

Furthermore, ShoeDazzle COO Deborah Benton, who has visited the region herself, says,  "This issue of child labor is of paramount importance to us. We've been very focused on this from the very beginning." Benton insists she's never received a report of "slave labor" conditions.

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Want to steal Kim Kadashian's style and help out a good cause?  In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, online retail website ShoeDazzle.com will donate 10% of proceeds from its pink product collection to the Susan G Komen Foundation for the Cure.

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The collection consists of a hot pink peep-toe bootie, a classy clutch (Kim wears both in this photo) and a sassy scarf and pin set, all of which retail for only $39.95.

The company will make a minimum donation of $25,000 to the charity, which is dedicated to education and research about causes, treatment and the search for a cure for breast cancer.

Keep checking back to RadarOnline.com for more fabulous pink products during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.