Provide better understanding of labor issues to the public

• China Labor Watch (CLW) finished several reports including “Protect the rights of American Eagle and Wal-Mart Supplier Factory Workers”, a work injury case report “Japanese Corporation invested factory worker needs your immediate help!”, and a Wal-Mart investigation report “A Report on Wal-Mart Suppliers in China”. The Wal-Mart report consists of the investigations on three major Wal-Mart Supplier factories along with surveys based on 169 Wal-Mart supplier factory workers.

• CLW released two research “Protect the rights of American Eagle and Wal-Mart Supplier Factory Workers”, a work injury case report “Japanese Corporation invested factory worker needs your immediate help!”

• In this past quarter, CLW's English language website received 1,519,687 hits (a 5 percent increase from the previous quarter). The Chinese website received 11,367 hits (an 18 percent increase from the previous quarter).

Strengthen the capabilities of independent labor activists and workers

• In April, CLW's executive director held a meeting with Migrant Workers Documentation Centre (NWDC). The two organizations discussed each other's work and possible future collaboration based on human rights protection.
• In May, CLW's executive director held a meeting with a professor of political economy at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The Professor planned to travel to China at the end of May, researching for his new book. His objective is to befriend workers from American girl factory, learning about their lives, work conditions, heritage, religion and etc. CLW has agreed to assist the Professor by introducing him to American Girl factory workers. With the connection CLW set up for the Professor, he will obtain a significant source to complete his book. After the book is published, it will allow the general public to gain a better understanding of Chinese workers' daily life along with their hardship as a part of China 's economic expansion.
• In the past quarter, CLW has continued to be a source of Chinese labor and human rights to the media. The objective of this approach is to indirectly provide Chinese labor related information to the public.

Network

• Li and CLW executive assistant David Shih was invited to attend Anti-Sweatshop meeting in Columbia Law School . The objective of the meeting is to gather and stabilize the NGO community and to further improvise labor rights protection.
• Li held a presentation at University of Iowa to discuss the labor rights problems in China .

Analysis

The increase of visits to the English and Chinese site may be China Labor Watch's constant outreach to the media and community during the past quarter. It may also be attributed to China 's previous incident of slave workers in Shangxi and Guangxi. The outbreak of this shocking news has seized the public attention; people are becoming increasingly concerned about labor rights in China . In addition, the constant news updates and reports released have also attracted more visitors to view CLW's websites. The increased number of visits on both the Chinese and English sites demonstrates that CLW continued to be seen as a reliable source to the public.

CLW reports are also one of the important aspects in gaining CLW's status thus the increase of public attention on labor rights issues in China . The report “A Report on Wal-Mart Suppliers in China ” has also encouraged Wal-Mart's Global Procurement to respond and arrange a meeting with CLW to discuss the improvements on their supplier factories in China .

Aside from the website and reports, media has played an important role in promoting workers' rights in China . CLW has become a significant asset to the international media that wish to inquire labors' situations in China . This quarter, Bastard Film, CNN, Radio Free Asia, and Voice of America have interviewed CLW.

As result of having success in promoting human rights China , CLW's work has continued to receive a broad attention from the academia, media, and also the business sectors that are concerned of labor problems in China . This quarter, Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have written articles after interviewing CLW executive director Li Qiang.

Another objective of CLW during the previous quarter was to increase interactions with other labor organizations. We believe that our ultimate goal of human rights protection cannot be accomplished by CLW alone, thus it would be a great contribution if CLW could work with other NGOs to remedy this matter. This quarter, CLW has contacted and cooperated with many organizations that are concered about labor rights in China.

In conclusion, the source of CLW's bilingual websites, reports, media, and collaboration with other NGOs has helped CLW to carry out its objective of pursuing human rights more effectively.