The 21st-century garment industry breaches the UN declaration of human rights in numerous different ways. The UN declaration of human rights affirms the dignity and worth of all people, and the equal rights of women and men. This declaration is usually considered as the common standard for all people everywhere. However, many of these human rights do not apply to the 21st-century garment industry, in three significant ways – rights, freedom, and discrimination.
The garment workers generally have no rights to liberty or personal security in garment factories in developing countries, that breaches the article 3 – rights to life, liberty, and personal security. Workers face unsafe and hazardous working conditions that often lead to work injuries and factory fires. A compelling evidence is the 2013 Savar building collapse that caused the death of 1130 workers and approximately 2500 injured people. What’s more shocking is that the workers discovered the cracks in the building the day before, but building 's owners ignored warnings and continued using the building. Garment workers were ordered to return the following day, and the building collapsed that morning. This is not the only garment-factory accident, but thousands and thousands of workers have died and several thousand more have …show more content…
This enables discarded clothes to be recycled and reused in garment industry or other industries. Nonetheless, in order to attempt to address the root issue, fast fashion should not take advantage of low wages as it the garment industry nowadays squeezes the wages of garment workers and it violates the human rights. Increasing the price of fashion products also pressures the consumer to consume less and decreases the rate of discarding clothes. I believe this two strategies enable the fashion consuming market to shrink by a considerable percentage and also protect the garment workers in developing
The garment workers generally have no rights to liberty or personal security in garment factories in developing countries, that breaches the article 3 – rights to life, liberty, and personal security. Workers face unsafe and hazardous working conditions that often lead to work injuries and factory fires. A compelling evidence is the 2013 Savar building collapse that caused the death of 1130 workers and approximately 2500 injured people. What’s more shocking is that the workers discovered the cracks in the building the day before, but building 's owners ignored warnings and continued using the building. Garment workers were ordered to return the following day, and the building collapsed that morning. This is not the only garment-factory accident, but thousands and thousands of workers have died and several thousand more have …show more content…
This enables discarded clothes to be recycled and reused in garment industry or other industries. Nonetheless, in order to attempt to address the root issue, fast fashion should not take advantage of low wages as it the garment industry nowadays squeezes the wages of garment workers and it violates the human rights. Increasing the price of fashion products also pressures the consumer to consume less and decreases the rate of discarding clothes. I believe this two strategies enable the fashion consuming market to shrink by a considerable percentage and also protect the garment workers in developing