Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee
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The Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (CIC) (Chinese:
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

 香港基督教工業委員會) is a non-governmental pressure group that focuses on labor welfare policy and industrial safety. The group was founded in 1966 as an auxiliary organization of the Hong Kong Christian Council. Its predecessor was the Christian Industrial Evangelism Committee, which was a study group formed in 1961.
Its special focus in 2001 was on the working conditions of toy workers for Hasbro
Hasbro
Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...

, Mattel
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. The products it produces include Fisher Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. The company's name is derived from...

, McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...

 and Disney in Southern China
China
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. Since then the group has not published any more recent content on its website.
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