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af �is in�erests." Workers can't receive beiter wages, benef ts, or righfis because anytime any arganization gets formed, it is irnmediately destrayed. Law wages, na benefits, �ong hours, and cramped and unsanitary canditians are what ��ople have to tolerate every day when they go to work at a sweatshop. Nu�nerous people die evezy year from exhaustion caused by overwork, inj�.�ry from machinery, ab�se by managers, and sickness due to unciean surrour�dings. Some factory mar;agers and supervisors even rape, abuse, and assault the workers to scare #hem into not ieaving, even ihough they are abused. Article 23, Section 1 o#'the Unfversal Declaratian of Human Rights states: "Everyane has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to j�st ar�d favorable conditians of work and to protection against unernployment." These pevple definitely do not work in favorable conditipns; they work in very harmful environinents. I think that it is appalling that children also work in these types of environments. Many companies ihat use sweatshops prefer hiring chiIdren instead of aduits beca�se many can work faster and the cortlpanies can pay them less or eve� nothing at al�. Artic�e 23, Section 2 of the Universal Declaration of Hurnar� Rig�is states: "Everyone, without any discri�ninafior�, has the right to eyual pay for eq�al work." Many co�panies that use sweatshops hire children who are ineligible #o work. About 250 �nillion children who are between the ages of �ive and fourteen are �ired at sweatshops to work full time, daing very dangerous jobs. I do not t�i.nk that these corr�panies should talce advantage oi these vulnerable childrer�. People who work in sweatshops don't choase to work there. They are farced to because they can'# fznd any other job, and they need money to support their families. I tl�ink that this issue is a major violation of �uman rights. Mar�y organizatians are trying ta