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A sweatshop is a factory where workers; are treated unfairly, get low pay, work long hours and live in poor conditions.
By using child labour in a sweatshop environment numerous human rights and the UNICEF rights of the child are being breached.
For example children being used in child labour are being denied article 28 of the UNICEF rights of the child (the right too education). This is because they are too busy working in sweatshops like Apple's to get an education.
Apple's sweatshops are covered in suicide nets after 18 people committed suicide. The workers are paid as little as $2.30 NZD an hour and workers in the past have reported working a whole day without a break, others have been forced to stand for their entire shift which can be 16-18 hours long. In 2010 137 workers were injured after using a poisonous chemical, n-hexane, to clean iphone screens. Workers get put into cramp and crowded living conditions. Workers will be packed into already crowded dorms and will sometimes be put in a small room with 12 or more people. The factories are poorly ventilated meaning that the workers have to breathe in air that is dense with dust from the metal that they use to make iphones, ipads and ipods. That makes us wonder, are these conditions right for children as young as 12 to be in? These children should be at schools learning and getting an education so they can get better and higher paying jobs.
Another example would be article 23 from the human rights declaration. Article 23 is about workers rights. This right includes: Equal pay, free choice of employment and being treated fairly in the work place.
Child labour is where children are illegally employed to work. These children get pulled out of education to work in sweatshops.
This right is commonly breached as many child labourers get less pay than adult workers because of their age and many child labourers are forced to join the work force.
349 child labourers have been found in Apple's sweatshops between 2006-2013. One of Apple's suppliers had hired 100,000 under aged workers to work on the production line. An underage worker died of pneumonia after only working in an Apple sweatshop for a month , making iphones. Although 95% of Apple's sweatshops complied with the Chinese child labour laws that help stop child labour, in 2013, 5% did not. It may be a small amount but that means that 5% were children working in sweatshop conditions and were not receiving a full education. These children were being deprived of an education, making them unable to get a better job and earn more money to support themselves and their family.
Most companies like Apple who own sweatshops to make their products, only care about economic growth and only want to look good for the consumer. These companies will cut corners to make it cheaper to produce their products. This often includes hiring children and ignoring some human rights.
1. How many people have committed suicide at Apple's factories?
2. How many underage workers worked in Apple's sweatshops from 2006-2013
3. How long can workers work in a day?
4. What were two examples of human rights that Apple's sweatshops are breaching?
5. In the video how were the workers treated?
6. How much in NZD do the workers get paid per hour?
Human rights are being breached in these sweatshops because many big companies do not want to pay for things like good and fair wages and overtime. In Apple's case they want to produce lots of iphones, ipads, ipods and macbooks to keep up with demand. To do this they need workers to do overtime and work more than 60 hours a week. This means workers are tired and their human rights get breached (article 23 workers rights). This can effect children worse than adults because some sweatshop owners/mangers think that children are lesser than adults so they pay them less and treat them more unfairly.
Some solutions would be: to raise the age of children staying in education until they are 18 , to make compulsory government checks on sweatshops every 6-12 months to ensure sure everything is above board, to raise the minimum wage from 10 RMB to 70 RMB and to make it illegal for workers to work more than sixty hours a week in China. These solutions would help stop child labour and help make the conditions in these sweatshops better. These solutions will also will help protect future generations human rights. If we don't do somehing human rights will be continued to be ignored in sweatshops. These laws could have a huge impact on protecting human rights in sweatshops. Apple might be aganist these new laws proctecting child labours and workers because it could make production slower and more expensive but these laws need to be put in place to protect the people of China. In the past workers wore treated even worse as there was no human rights hundred of years of ago but now because of the human rights our work place conditions have improved but they still aren't perfect. With these laws put in place, human rights will be more respected and valued in sweatshops in China. With this type of action other countries could follow, making a gobal change in the way we treat child and workers in factories.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2381182/Apple-accused-sweatshop-conditions-Far-Eastern-factories.html
http://qz.com/183563/what-happens-when-apple-finds-a-child-making-your-iphone/
http://consumercal.org/why-are-we-supporting-apples-sweatshops/
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/apple-sweatshop-problem-16-hour-days-70-cents-172800495.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8324867/Apples-child-labour-issues-worsen.html
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/child-labour-uncovered-in-apples-suppliers-20130126-2ddio.html
http://newsscream.com/15-year-old-shi-zhaokun-died-at-apple-shanghai-factory-producing-budget-iphone-5c.html
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