Garment Worker Rights Organization Launches Crowdfunder Amid US Aid Cuts

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Labour Behind the Label, which represents Clean Clothes Campaign in the UK, was founded in 2001 and since then some of its notable campaigns include pushing UK retailers to sign the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, ensuring Rana Plaza victims receive long-term compensation, supporting workers in Indonesia to receive legally-owed severance pay, and campaigning with Cambodian garment workers to demand a living wage.

As the funding landscape for organisations campaigning for international human rights continues to shrink, our work is needed now more than ever and this couldn’t have come at a worse time.

Ellen Kettel, advocacy lead at Labour Behind the Label, told me: “We are hugely concerned about the precedent that the US has set for a global move away from international aid.