The Garment Industry in Bangladesh: A Human Rights Challenge

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The Garment Industry in Bangladesh: A Human Rights Challenge
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3/7/2019

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It is the deceptive that the international fashion industry is beneath straining. The world is
incapable to withstand the cumulative the petition for the inexpensive, fashionable style that is
generally inconsiderately cast-off afterward less than three attires (Cho, 2017). According to the
analysis, the consumer’s purchases 400 per cent more clothing in the recent scenario as
comparing they did a simple twenty eons ago. Wide-reaching customers purchase around 73
million tons of textiles a year (Pedersen, Gwozdz and Hvass, 2018). In the whole industry, the
human right plays a prominent role that is ignored by the companies at greater level. The human
rights are pertinent for each individual beneath any situations. The application of human right
does not go unexcused at some domicile or in any situation (Bunch, 2018). One of the countries
Bangladesh is known for the poverty as well as the highest population density in the world. The
density of the population of country is approximately 1101 individuals per square kilometer.
According to the report of World Bank, more than 30 % of overall population in Bangladesh is
living below poverty line till the year 2010 that can be roughly 47,7597285 people that are living
in the poverty (Ansary and Barua, 2015). Based on the previous pattern, such number has likely
to increase considering the most recent poverty headcount ratio at the national poverty line is
about seven years old. The garment industry of Bangladesh was worth about 20 billion U.S.
dollar in the year 2013 as they are considered as the second largest clothing suppliers of the
world market, following China. The economy of the Bangladesh is majorly based on the success
of the garment industry. The business garment factory have with the U.S corporations such as
Gap, Disney, Zara, Wal-Mart as well as Old Navy as they are crucial to the economic growth of
the country as well as free trade. Such large wealth corporations do not wanted to pay huge
amount that affected the overall industry at greater level (Sharif et al., 2018).
With the growth of businesses in the state Bangladesh, the privileges of the human are been
ignored at greater level. It has been deeply examined that utmost of the widespread misuses of
the human right has been done the industry of readymade garments of Bangladesh which include
forced labor, child labor, discrimination, insufficient payment, child labor, lack of appropriate
justice, weak working environment that forces the individual to live with the poverty as well as
hazards at the workplace (Jacobs et al., 2016). The serious focuses on the young women between
the age of 16-25 who make up to 80 % of the 108 million garment factory workers in
Bangladesh. The young women work from eight in the morning until ten or eleven at the night

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and work seven days in a week. Overtime is compulsory for the workers as well as they are
forces to exertion up-to 20 hours when there is a situation of haste to produce an order. The
workers are not allowable to express while they are employed as also allowed for two trips to the
bathroom. They are also fired in the age of 30. The workers faced inhuman treatment, unsafe
factory conditions or unionizing the women are at risk of physical abuse, imprisonment, verbal
assault or sometimes they may lose their job. The country Bangladesh has deliberated as one of
the major tainted republics in the global level due to which the socio-economic development of
the country negatively affected (Hess, 2017). Every individual think about their own profit and
highly ignore the rights of the human. In the current years, the fast development of the
manufacturing of retail clothing within the country has caused in additional augmented demand
that is envisioned for actual multistory building. One of the cases has been occurred in
Bangladesh in which the company with the name of Rana Plaza was collapsed in the year 2013.
The harshly packed clothing workshop Rana Plaza that are located in borders of the capital
Dhaka distorted as well as exterminated approximately 1,138 textiles worker as well as injured
2000 individual. It has been estimated that more than 150 international brands was connected
with Rana Plaza and also signed accord upon the fire and Building Safety with the Bangladesh.
Such situation was occurred due to the reason of unethical practices adopted by the company the
main unethical reasons on for building the issues were firstly, the building was constructed
deprived of any appropriate notification and engraved approval from the anxious expert
(Reinecke and Donaghey, 2016). Second, the conversation took place from the use of marketable
to the industrial uses. Third, the company has constructed extra three bottoms within the
assessment of the unique document. Fourth, the company has used inferior substantial for
building the structure that in realism was the massive motive for breakdown as well as also tip
near the problem on the construction of building that were motivated by the vibrations of the
generators as well as numerous other weighty and stirring equipment with different tools. It
represent that the company has adopted unethical manner to continue their business due to which
the labors of the company suffered from such situation as the authorities of Bangladesh was
failed to meet the obligations towards protecting the interest and human rights of the employees
(Barua and Ansary, 2017).
The social factors influencing the human rights as well as worldwide sustainability that are
frequently intensely entrenched as well as can take even year and decades of correct. In the