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eBay UK Supports Child Labour

Yossarian | 31.08.2001 10:14

eBay supports the use of child labour and sweat shops in third world countries.

Just take a look at the eBay UK homepage,  http://www.ebay.co.uk, under the Don't Miss section is a promotion in conjunction with Disney.

Disney's involvement in sweatshops has been well documented in the past,  http://www.summersault.com/~agj/clr/alerts/disneysweatshopsinchina.html, and it would appear that eBay, by actively promoting a company such as Disney, supports such practices.

Even though Disney states that "a portion" of the money raised from this auction will go to charity, I contend that merely 1% could be seen as "a portion." With the opening auction price off USD700,000 (GBP498,000), such a large sum would go a long way amongst under paid and exploited sweat shop workers in the third world countries (Hong Kong and Haiti) where Disney produces their merchandise.

Yossarian
- e-mail: yossarian@start.com.au