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Want to learn more about organizations you can support that advocate for labor rights? We’ve got you covered! Here’s a list of 11 labor rights organizations dedicated to improving working conditions and empowering workers in order to create a future of fashion centered around equity, sustainability, and justice.
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PayUp Fashion
“The #PayUp campaign formed in March 2020 out of the fashion industry’s catastrophic decision to refuse payment for completed clothing orders heading into the COVID-19 pandemic. Now they are focusing on a long-term campaign for systemic reform to advance labor rights.”
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Justice in Fashion
“Justice in Fashion is an alliance of like-minded and skilled individuals, endeavouring to create positive change in the fashion industry and provide a voice for those who are voiceless. We are here to manage, alliance, collaborate and network ideas.”
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Garment Worker Center
“Garment Worker Center is a worker rights organization leading an anti-sweatshop movement to improve conditions for tens of thousands of Los Angeles garment workers.”
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Clean Clothes Campaign
“Clean Clothes Campaign is a global network dedicated to improving working conditions and empowering workers in the global garment and sportswear industries. They have extensive news and up-to-date research available on their site.”
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The Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA)
“The Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) was founded in 2007 as an Asian labor-led global labor and social alliance across garment producing countries (such as India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Bangladesh) and consumer regions (USA and Europe) for addressing poverty level wages, gender discrimination, and freedom of association in global garment production networks.”
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Awaj Foundation
“Awaj Foundation is a grassroots labor rights NGO with over 600,000 worker members across Bangladesh. Through our projects, services, research and advocacy, we aim to empower workers and enable harmonious industrial relations. We particularly focus on supporting women workers, because we believe that leadership from women can transform our society towards greater equity and justice.”
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Fair Wear Foundation
“Fair Wear Foundation is a non-profit organisation. We know there’s a better way to make clothes. Our mission is to see a world where the garment industry supports workers in realising their rights to safe, dignified, properly paid employment.”
Fair Wear promotes a supply chain approach of ‘shared responsibility’ to social compliance in the global garment sector. We believe the management decisions of clothing brands have an enormous influence on factory conditions.
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The Circle
“Founded by singer-songwriter and activist Annie Lennox in 2008, The Circle is a unique organisation inspired by the notion that when women come together and organise, they can be a powerful force for change. We are a global network of women from all walks of life and all backgrounds who have something in common: the awareness that we still do not live in a world where women and girls have equal rights and equal opportunities. History shows us that when the collective power of women come together positive change can be achieved.”
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Labour Behind the Label
“Labour Behind the Label is a UK-based not-for-profit co-operative organisation with an office in Easton, Bristol, which campaigns for workers' rights in the clothing industry. It is the platform of the international Clean Clothes Campaign in the United Kingdom. LBL's members include trade unions and their local branches, consumer organisations, campaign groups, and charities.”
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United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
“United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS, pronounced 'you-sas') is the nation’s largest youth-led, student labor campaign organization with affiliated locals on over 150 campuses. USAS chapters run both local and internationally-coordinated campaigns for economic justice in partnership with worker and community organizations.”
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The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)
“The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is an independent labor rights monitoring organization. We investigate working conditions in factories around the globe. Our purpose is to document and combat sweatshop conditions; identify and expose the practices of global brands and retailers that perpetuate labor rights abuses; and protect the rights of workers who make apparel and other products.”
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