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WORKERS’ DEATHS SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON GLOBAL WORKING CONDITIONS

Date : 2013-05-01
Composantes : Analyse et mesure
Enjeux : Impacts spécifiques/éthique et droits humains

Fair and safe working conditions in global supply chains are still a distant prospect. More than 400 workers were killed last week when an unstable factory building in Bangladesh collapsed. Just five months previously, over 100 workers died when they were unable to escape a fire in a garment factory in Dhaka (Bangladesh). Seven months ago a fire in a textile factory in Karachi (Pakistan) killed almost 300 workers, who found themselves trapped due to locked exits and bars across the factory windows. On the same day in the Pakistani City of Lahore 25 people were killed in a shoe factory in similar circumstances.

Article en ligne : www.sustainable-procurement.org/newsroom/news-archive/?c=search&month=5&year=2013&auid=04672816