{"id":33897,"date":"2021-07-09T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T10:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jul\/09\/top-fashion-brands-face-legal-challenge-over-garment-workers-rights-in-asia"},"modified":"2021-07-09T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T10:21:47","slug":"top-fashion-brands-face-legal-challenge-over-garment-workers-rights-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33897","title":{"rendered":"Top fashion brands face legal challenge over garment workers\u2019 rights in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pan-Asian labour rights group launches groundbreaking attempt to hold global labels accountable for alleged rights violations during pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Legal complaints are being filed against some of the world\u2019s largest fashion brands in major garment-producing countries across Asia in a groundbreaking attempt to hold the global fashion industry legally accountable for human rights violations in the countries where their clothing is made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.floorwage.org\/\">The Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA)<\/a>, a pan-Asian labour rights group, says it is using legal challenges to argue that global clothing brands should be considered joint employers, along with their suppliers, under national laws and be held accountable for alleged wage violations during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jul\/09\/top-fashion-brands-face-legal-challenge-over-garment-workers-rights-in-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pan-Asian labour rights group launches groundbreaking attempt to hold global labels accountable for alleged rights violations during pandemicLegal complaints are being filed against some of the world\u2019s largest fashion brands in major garment-producing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,576,1453,59,1617,53,62,156,60,61,674,1478,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fashion","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-hm","category-human-rights","category-india","category-indonesia","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-unions","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33898,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33897\/revisions\/33898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}