International Partner Organisations Working Meeting 2023 - Panel discussion with Nandita Shivakumar from AFWA (2nd person from left) © Textilbündnis Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) The Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) is an Asian labour-led global labour and social alliance across garment-producing countries in Asia and consumer regions of USA and Europe. Founded in 2007, AFWA aims to build regional unity among Asian garment unions to overcome the limitations of country-based struggles in global production networks and holds global fashion brands accountable. AFWA’s historic cross-border living wage formulation for Asian garment workers is also the only women-centered formulation of its kind. Website of AFWA: https://asia.floorwage.org/ How FEMNET works together with AFWA FEMNET is working with AFWA as part of a German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles project initiative to expand and upscale the Dindigul Agreement, an agreement to end gender-based violence and harassment in Indian textile factories. The Dindigul Agreement was first signed in April 2022 in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and is an enforceable brand agreement (EBA) in which multinational companies legally commit to labor and allies to use their supply chain relationships to support a worker- or union-led program at certain factories or worksites. Together with TTCU, the local trade union, and AFWA, FEMNET is working to extend the existing agreement to other companies and suppliers so that more workers can benefit from the positive impact. Further Information Women workers transform Tamil Nadu factories in fight against gender-based violence July 18th 2023 back
