India is a major trading country that has not yet ratified the United Nations Convention on
Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). However, India is a part of BRIC (Brazil, Russia,
India and China) which are countries believed to be the future dominant suppliers of manufactured goods,
services, and raw materials by 2050. BRIC countries are projected to be the fastest-growing market
economies and although they do not have any formal trade agreements, leaders regularly attend summits
together and act in concert with one another’s interests (Majaski, 2020). India is a hub for many foreign
companies to manufacture goods for export or set up support operations, mainly because of the cheap,
skilled labor force.
India maintains a hybrid legal system with a mixture of civil, common law and customary,
Islamic ethics, or religious law within their legal framework. The Indian Constitution, Indian laws, adhere
to the United Nations guidelines on human rights law and environmental laws. In India there are four
types of intellectual property that include trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Exceptions to
Infringement include private or personal use, including research, criticism or review, whether of that work
or any other work, and the reporting of current events and current affairs, including the reporting of a
lecture delivered in public (Srivastava, 2020).
India is notorious for their ‘cheap labor’, it’s no surprise that there are a concerning number of
violations and notices to more than 200 factories spinning mills, and in most cases there were too few
toilets, hygiene issues, and creches that had not been set up even though there should be a toilet for every
20 employees and a creche where there are 30 women employed. Many times, notices will be sent to the
violators with a timeframe of one month to remedy the issues. But often these issues do not get remedied.
There are also complaints from workers about harassment, long working hours, poor wages and other
challenges. Many have stated they were working in “miserable conditions”. India’s National Human
Rights Commission (NGRC) have been working diligently to get India’s government to address these
issues because toilets, drinking water, first aid are crucial and primary requirements at the workplace.
According to worldometer.info as of August 09, 2020 India has a population of 1,381,419,077
people, that’s equivalent to 17.7% of the total worlds’ population. The public perception of companies
doing businesses that engage in these awful human rights violations and child labor of course can’t be
good. I know that when I think of businesses in the US outsourcing work to India I think they did for the
cheap labor, and India has a lot of workers that are willing to do the work for a lot cheaper than one would
pay in the US. However, when a company does business with companies that violate human rights and
