Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2brh9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T13:16:45.063Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

International Human Rights

U.S. Government Responds to Poor Working Conditions in Bangladesh’s Garment Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 See U.S. Clothing Retailers Adopt Factory Safety Plan for Bangladesh, this issue.

2 Office of the United States Trade Representatives, Bangladesh, at http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/south-central-asia/bangladesh.

3 Julfikar Ali Manik & Yardley, Jim, Bangladesh Finds Gross Negligence in Factory Fire, N.Y. Times, Dec. 17, 2012, at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/world/asia/bangladesh-factory-fire-caused-by-gross-negligence.html.Google Scholar

4 Yardley, Jim, Report on Deadly Factory Collapse in Bangladesh Finds WidespreadBlame, N. Y. Times, May 22, 2013, at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/world/asia/report-on-bangladesh-building-collapse-finds-widespread-blame.html Google Scholar.

5 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2013/0537, State Department Call with U.S. Buyers in Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment Sector (May 8, 2013), at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/05/209163.htm.

6 Schneider, Howard, Bangladesh Labor Lapses Could End Tariff Breaks, Wash. Post, May 17, 2013, at A1 Google Scholar; Urbina, Ian, Unions Seek to Revise Bangladesh Trade Status, N.Y. Times, May 31, 2013, at B1 Google Scholar; Editorial, Obama Gets Tough on Bangladesh, N.Y. Times, June 28, 2013, at A24.

7 White House Press Release, Technical Trade Proclamation to Congress Regarding Bangladesh (June 27, 2013), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/27/technical-trade-proclamation-congress-regarding-bangladesh.

8 Greenhouse, Steven, U.S., Urging Worker Safety, Outlines Steps for Bangladesh to Regain Its Trade Privileges, N.Y. Times, July 20, 2013, at B2.Google Scholar

9 [Editor’s Note: The compact is available online at http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/july/tradoc_151601.pdf.]

10 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2013/0908, Statement by the U.S. Government on Labor Rights and Factory Safety in Bangladesh (July 19, 2013), at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/07/212209.htm.