On this International Women’s Day, the Asia Floor Wage Alliance-Women’s Leadership Committee stands in solidarity to demand justice and dignity for women garment workers across Asia. We are women trade union leaders from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – representing millions of garment workers whose labor sustains one of the world’s most profitable industries.

Women workers are the backbone of the global garment industry. We cut, stitch, finish, and pack the clothes that brands sell for billions. Yet in our workplaces, too many women face gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH), poverty wages, inhumane working hours, repression of Freedom of Association, and sudden factory closures that strip us of our livelihoods overnight.

Today, we do not speak only of injustice, but with hope, and with defiance – because women garment workers across Asia are organizing, demanding change, and building solutions that work.

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