Bangladesh Sweatshops

In addition to civil and political rights, social and economic rights are also included in the legal rights. Therefore, they can be found in Articles 22 to 26 and are related to “social security, conditions of work, rest and leisure, standard of living, and education” (Global Citizenship Commission 2016). Global Citizenship Commission (2016) published that there is a causal relation between civil and political rights and social and economic rights. As long as the economic and social rights are fulfilled, people can enjoy civil and political rights. According to the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative, a non-profit campaign organization for human rights, economic and social rights include the right to education, the right to health, the right to food, the right to health, the right to housing, the right to work and the right to social security. In our case, MNCs did not fulfill their corporate social responsibility because they overlooked the poor and dangerous working environment and related health problems in RP building.
The unskilled workers in Bangladesh are lack of adequate fair wage and safe and healthy working environment. Therefore, they become forced cheap labor who are vulnerable to increasing human rights abuses. This result exemplifies the idea that the failure of …show more content…
They claim that they cannot directly control the construction in Bangladesh or monitor the daily operation of those factories because they have no direct contractual relationship with local factories owners, given the analysis by NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. In addition, the responsibility associated with these foreign buyers were lessened because “the apparel supply chains in Bangladesh are heavily fragmented, intermediated, and opaque” (Jacobs & Singhal 2017