Walmart Human Rights Violations

Human rights violations are committed on a seemingly regular basis, and there is a pattern in why they happen. All around the world, people harm and disrespect the rights of others. People harass and kill other people all the time; so often that many people are desensitized to these crimes. These commonly occurring human rights violations are often under punished, and the pattern behind why this happens is personal interest. Personal interests is a reason for under punishment in a human rights violation in the Ray Rice incident, where Rice was barely punished due to the NFL’s interests. Another incident where this occurs is the mistreatment of workers in a seafood processing facility in Thailand. Walmart has allowed this to happen because …show more content…
In Walmart’s seafood processing facility in Thailand, worker have horrible conditions to work in, such as “under and non‐payment of wages, violations of minimum wage laws, long overtime hours, dangerous and unsanitary working conditions” (International Labor Rights Forum & Warehouse Workers United 1). The low payment and lack of attention to working conditions saves Walmart money on employees, and helps their business. There is still worse to come though. Within this processing facility, there are many problems with “forced and child labor”, which implies that there were slaves in the facility. UDHR article four clearly states that “slavery and slave trade will be prohibited in all forms” ("The Universal Declaration of Human Rights"). Walmart is a big, nationally known company, and they should be taking action against slavery in their facilities. Instead, Walmart ignores it in order to increase their profits. Walmart’s terrible acts of injustice are performed due to their self interests to produce their products in the cheapest possible way, and they neglect the workers in Thailand in order to accomplish