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Reebok's latest 'Human Rights' award winner, Dita Sari, has told the company to, well, fuck off.
Prominent women’s labor rights activist Dita Indah Sari has rejected a $50,000 human rights award from sporting apparel giant Reebok in protest against the meager salaries the company pays its Indonesian factory workers.
“The factories do not pay a living wage. The pay packet cannot cover basic needs,” she was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
She said it would have been hypocritical to accept the money, even though it could have been used to fund her cause to improve the conditions of Indonesian laborers.
In her own statement, she added: The decision I have made is not merely based on data, report, statistics or assumptions. In 1995, I was arrested and tortured by the police, after leading a strike of 5000 workers of Indoshoes Inti Industry. They demanded an increase of their wages (they were paid only US$1 for working 8 hours a day), and maternity leave as well.
This company operated in West Java, and produced shoes of Reebok and Adidas. I have seen for my self how the company treat the workers, and used the police to repress the strikers.
This is great. The 'Human Rights' award by Reebok has long annoyed me as an example of sheer hypocrisy - now someone has had the gall to point this out.
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