Child Labor & Sweatshops in Bangladesh March 26, 2009
Posted by moinul in Bangladesh, Ethics, HRM.Tags: Child labor, Garments, Nike, sweatshop, textile
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Much has been told about the “Child Labor” and “Sweatshop” issues in newspapers and as well as by human rights activists. But do we really care? I’m afraid, not. We give a damn about these children who work day and nights. We feel pity if a worker is sweating to produce a Nike T-Shirt for us.
The obvious question may come, Why should we care? Aren’t we paying $60 for that shirt? We are being responsible by purchasing the T-Shirt at a higher price. But who gets the money? It’s time now that we as consumers’ be aware about general human rights that every human being on earth deserves. By the way, I’m not a feminist or a leftist. All I’m trying is to aware ourselves that something definite can be done to improve the lives of some poor people who work for our daily commodities.
Cultural tendency of desi parents June 4, 2007
Posted by moinul in Bangladesh.1 comment so far
Today I read an intersting post written by one of the authors of bdblogger.com where he wrote that Bangladeshi aunties are expecting more for their daughters when it comes to finding their grooms. The fact is that most of the parents are too much ambitious when selecting a groom for their daughters. But there are reasons behind this kind of ambitions. Parents love their children and they want to do anything to secure the life of their children. Probably it should be the same attitude by anybobody’s parents if they are Bangladeshi. It is a sort of emotion that is culturally attached with most Bangladeshi parents. However, I don’t like the way they approach and testify potential grooms. I also don’t like to see parents being too much ambitious with their daughters who are not at all capable to be ambitious and be glamourous housewives.
