Existing International Laws—Relevance in Ensuring Rectificatory Global Justice
摘要
This chapter examines the international regulatory frameworks governing shipbreaking. It describes the frameworks and critically questions the moral validity of these laws based on the theoretical foundation global injustice. This chapter specifically employs the concept of ‘global injustice’ as its theoretical basis. As shipbreaking workers mainly suffer from the poor shipbreaking practices in South Asia, this chapter examines whether the preventive system introduced under the international legal frameworks is enough to ensure justice to workers. It argues that the Hong Kong Convention is fundamentally flawed, as it disproportionately transfers burden of implementing safe shipbreaking practices onto developing countries. This chapter concludes raising the debate of introducing a transnational compensation framework.