Centre. Where in any factory, 50 or more workers are employed, there shall be a Safety Committee formed and functioned in the manner prescribed by the Rule.50 However, the role of this committee is not clearly defined.51 In fact, such committee made up of management and some workers chosen by the employer has become a powerless body. 11. International Legal Framework and Standard This part of the study encompasses the United Nations (UN) Conventions and the UN specialized agency International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions. 11.1. UN Documents Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) declares the right to life, liberty and security of every person which signifies the safety and security net of the garments workers for the purpose of this study. Article 22 of the UDHR includes everyone as ‘a member of the society’ which denotes that every garments worker has the right of social security.52 Directly admitting the social security of the worker, art 25(1) of the UDHR declares the right to a standard of living and well-being for everyone and mentions that all people have the right to have adequate food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services. The article also mentions that everyone should have the right to ‘security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control’. The declarations of the UDHR have been demonstrated in the conventions of the United Nations. Article 9 of the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) provides that the States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to social security, including social insurance. Article 10 (2) of the ICESCR mentions that special protection should be accorded to mothers during a reasonable period before and after childbirth. During such period working mothers should be accorded paid leave or leave with 50 Section 90A of the BLA, 2006 as amended in 2013 See Bangladesh workers‘ rights still at risk: Human Rights Watch, July 16, 2013; Jason Motlagh, A Year After Rana Plaza: What Hasn‘t Changed Since the Bangladesh Factory Collapse, Pulitzer Centre, April 18, 2014, available at <http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/asia-bangladesh-rana-plaza-factoy-workers-labor-rights-fastfashion>. 52 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art 22. 51