A report has found that 94% of Cambodian factories breached overtime regulations, and one factory was found to have fired 40 workers for refusing to work overtime.
Workers in a Bangladeshi factory were beaten when they didn't meet their unreachable manufacturing targets. There are 168 hours in a week, at peak production time, these workers were working 100 hours per week. The workers are punched and slapped, and some pregnant women have miscarried due to the awful treatment.‘

'Beyond the crumbling walls of sweatshops we find out the true cost of fashion. It’s April 23rd 2013, a busy commercial building in Dhaka, Bangladesh towers over thousands of workers, many of them children. As they toil away in a cramped sweatshop the force of the eight-story building collapses on to them, killing more than a 1,000 people and permanently disfiguring a further 2,500. It emerges that this building had been condemned and not fit for purpose, yet many workers were caged for 14-hours a day with no escape. This was not just an unfortunate circumstance but one that could easily have been prevented.’

- https://www.theconsciouschallenge.org/
ecologicalfootprintbibleoverview/clothing-human-rights.

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The buildings are also not in good condition so there are often fires and accidents. The managers in these buildings lock the fire escape doors to"control" the workers. One survivor said, “I didn’t know what to do. Finally I had no other choice but to join others and jump out the window. I saw many of my friends lying dead on the ground beside me. I injured my legs but I came out alive.” Another survivor said, “In desperation, I went back and forth looking down below. The smoke was so thick and I picked the best place to jump in a pile of boxes. My sister jumped too. She died.”

We would just like to specify that not all clothing factories are like this, but some are, and we would like to change that.

‍For more information on this topic, visit this site:
https://www.sustainyourstyle.org/old-working conditions#:~:text=The%20collapse%20of%20
the%20Rana,blasted%20sand%20in%20unsafe
%20buildings.