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1 Sep 2009

Author:
Natl. Labor Committee [USA]

Where Ships and Workers Go to Die - Shipbreaking in Bangladesh & The Failure of Global Institutions to Protect Worker Rights

Some of the world’s largest decommissioned tanker ships...have been run up on the beaches of Bangladesh...Thirty thousand Bangladeshi workers, some of them children...toil 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for wages of just 22 to 32 cents an hour, doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. [The Resource Centre invited the Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association and Kabir Steel Shipbreaking Yard to respond to this report but they declined to respond]

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