Trade unions and NGOs working in the fields of workers' rights…have complete lack of faith in the proposed UN treaty on ship breaking…through the International Maritime Organization [IMO], a UN body…The IMO convention...will do nothing to alter the current state of affairs that finds just a handful of developing countries managing the hazards and risks of over 90% of the world's toxic waste...The...treaty does nothing to prevent hazardous wastes...from being exported to the poorest communities and most desperate workers in developing countries. It ignores the polluter pays/ producer responsibility principle, environmental justice/ transfer no harm principles, waste prevention/substitution principles and the principle of environmentally sound management.