China-CH-Fall10

[|China Human Rights Fact Sheet] This document relates to the theme of human rights because it is an overview of all of the recorded human rights violations China has been charged with. This document reviews the different types of human rights violations China has been charged with, along with specific events. The document also includes other statistics and facts about China's human rights violations. [|China's Youth Meet Microsoft] This document is a report by the U.S. Department of Labor on working conditions of teenage workers in a KYE factory in China. It has many statistics on the conditions workers have to work in and their pay. Along with statistics the report also has parts of an interview done with a teenage worker in the KYE factory. Workers are paid very little and have to work extreme hours, which relates to the theme of human rights because workers are underpaid, they work long hours, and they work in bad conditions. Also, these workers are very young to work so much. All of these things are violating the workers human rights. [|China Labor Rights] This article relates to the theme of human rights because it is discussing the labor rights violations that are taking place in Chinese factories and businesses. This article goes over examples of the labor rights violations, along with why they are labor rights violations. The artifact describes how Chinese workers are forced to work long hours for little pay, and even the bad conditions some of the workers are forced to work in. [|Chinese Factories, Lost Fingers and Low Pay] This article relates to the theme of human rights because it is a report on how still, even after heavy pressure had been placed on Chinese factories to improve workplace conditions, labor rights violations are still common. The artifact talks about how companies still continue to pay workers too little, not give them proper health benefits, and expose them to dangerous or harmful conditions. The article also describes examples of these violations, which are also human rights violations. [|Bad Working Conditions in EMS Factories] This article relates to the theme of human rights because it describes the bad working conditions of a Chinese factory. The document explains how the Chinese factory, which manufactures music player, puts its workers at risk by exposing them to dangerous conditions. The article also talks about discrimination in the EMS factories and the low salaries workers receive.
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