Human exploitation
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Synopsis: The mankind is plagued by the continuous human exploitation everywhere that does not seem to go away due to the money the unscrupulous people make so there is greater urgency to find ways to stop it and help those who are so exploited .The blog focuses on this issue and how the NGOs are helping.
There is an epidemic of human exploitation everywhere that is unprecedented. It seems that the greed for quick profit and the consumer demand for ever lower prices of manufactured good is the culprit that is fueling the ever increasing human exploitation that we see now in poorer countries.
In the guise of creating employment for the poor, these countries allow private entrepreneurs to open up sweat shops in disreputable areas where poor people line up for jobs to feed their families and put themselves in great danger as the following story will highlight.
There was a multistory building built hastily with very low standard of construction and absolutely no safety features that are commonly found in developed countries where laws are stringently applied but this was in Dacca where the rules are lax. Poor women of all ages worked in this abominable place for a pittance to sew clothes destined for the western markets where they were sold for a good price reaping enormous profit for the owner.
This cage like building was worse than a jail where the workers mostly women were employed making clothes but locked in during the day and the steel doors were only opened at the end of the day when these exhausted women went out to their shanties and reappeared the next day to work in the sweat shop just so that they could earn a little money to feed their families.
One day a fire broke out in this building no one knows why but most likely due to an overheated circuit and the fire rapidly spread throughout many floors where unsuspecting women were hard at work under the cruel and harsh supervision of their supervisors. The building quickly filled with smoke and fire consuming everything because it was a textile manufactory but the steel doors were locked where frantic people beat it to no avail and died horribly burned and asphyxiated. More than a 1000 people perished in the flame. The owner fled before