UN HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF WELCOMES SIGNING OF BANGLADESH WORK SAFETY ACCORD BY MAJOR COMPANIES WITHOUT UNION PUSH START A NEW MILESTONE ON GENERAL WELFARE OF THE WORKER

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UN HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF WELCOMES SIGNING OF BANGLADESH WORK SAFETY
ACCORD BY MAJOR COMPANIESNew York, May 17 2013 4:00PMThe United
Nations human rights chief today welcomed the decision of dozens of
international companies to sign on to an fire-and-safety agreement in
the aftermath of the deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh, while
calling for additional actions to overhaul the entire garment sector.

"By the midnight deadline on 15 May, 37 companies including major
retailers in Europe such as Inditex, Carrefour and H&M, had signed the
Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh," the spokesperson
for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville,
<"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13334&LangID=E">told
journalists in Geneva.

"We welcome the fact that dozens of international companies have made
a legal commitment to improve safety in Bangladesh's garment
factories, in the wake of last month's building collapse that killed
more than 1,100 people," Mr. Colville added, calling the agreement
"important and in many ways unprecedented."

The signatories to the Accord on Building and Fire Safety commit "to
the goal of a safe and sustainable Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment
(RMG) industry in which no worker needs to fear fires, building
collapses, or other accidents that could be prevented with reasonable
health and safety measures" according to the ILO website.

The companies that sign on have 45 days from the signing to develop
and agree on an implementation plan to monitor their textile
production in Bangladesh.

Some major retailers, including Walmart and other companies in the
United States, have chosen to abstain from the agreement and inspect
the factories that supply its stores themselves.

"The spotlight will be on them to ensure they fulfil their pledges,"
said Mr. Colville.

Speaking on behalf of the Office of the High Commissioners for Human
Rights (OHCHR), Mr. Colville said measures taken so far may mark "a
turning point" in the history of Bangladesh's clothing industry but
should only be a beginning.

UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay is calling for swift action
to empower trade unions and overhaul the garment sector, with a far
more stringent approach to oversight and inspection.

"The world is now saying enough is enough, but it took the deaths of
at least 1,127 of the largely female workforce crammed into five
factories in the Rana Plaza to make this happen," Mr. Colville said.
"The best way to honour the victims is to ensure such a tragedy never
happens again – in any industry anywhere.

"This issue does not just concern Bangladesh," he stressed.

The Guiding Principles, agreed to by the UN two years ago, outline how
States and businesses should implement the UN "Protect, Respect and
Remedy" Framework to better manage business and human rights
challenges.

The framework is based on three pillars – the State duty to protect
against human rights abuses by third parties, including business,
through appropriate policies, regulation, and adjudication; the
corporate responsibility to respect human rights, which means avoiding
infringing on the rights of others and to address adverse impacts that
occur; and greater access by victims to effective remedy, both
judicial and non-judicial.

"While the spotlight has been on the international brands sourcing
from Bangladesh, this should not detract from the duties and
responsibilities of Governments and factories to prevent this kind of
disaster happening, and to ensure redress and accountability when they
do," Mr. Colville said.May 17 2013 4:00PM
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