Actress Minnie Driver said she was ignorant about the conditions that women in poor countries work under until she visited garment factories in Cambodia and Thailand. "The poorest people with the least are making sacrifices for those of us who have the most," said Driver, who visited Southeast Asia as part of the British charity group Oxfam International's "Make Trade Fair" campaign.

Wearing a skirt made out of Cambodian silk by local workers, Driver said she wanted corporate leaders to carefully consider their buying practices. "Every time they squeeze to get lower production costs, faster production, it's nobody but the working women who suffer," said Driver."

She spoke after a fashion show in Phnom Penh where workers modeled clothes bearing large tags reading "Made in Cambodia ... by us ... US $0.25 per hour."