Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), an Asian labour-led global labour and social alliance, has been monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers in garment-producing countries through ground reports from AFWA partners and allies in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and detailed tracking of local and national news media sources. These perspectives of global south workers and unions are presented in the series, “The Emperor Has No Clothes.”

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