Our campaigns demonstrate that a small nonprofit organization working with a network of concerned citizens and activists can successfully challenge multi-billion dollar corporations. We have been very successful in helping increase human rights and working standards in the region. We would like to move this success to Asia. Asia has the most horrible working conditions and the largest amount of child labor and sweatshops in the world. China is the world's largest apparel manufacturer with over 4 million workers working just in apparel factories.
China also has the most horrid working conditions and labor rights violations in the region.
The NLC will research and run public action campaigns focusing more awareness and activism toward human and labor rights in Asia by the U.S. public. We will incorporate this theme of disclosure into all of our campaigns. This is a long term project and will require many resources, but it is one that has massive ramifications with the potential of extraordinary progress for labor rights work. Our office in Central America will help build these relationships, serve as a base for information from the U.S., and help foster greater collaboration among groups conducting independent monitoring in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. The office will also help launch monitoring in Nicaragua, Mexico and Haiti.