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Freedom of association is the featured FLA Code provision in this year's FLA Public Report. We chose to focus on this Provision because it plays an essential part in efforts to ensure compliance with the labor standards in the FLA Workplace Code of Conduct. Where workers are able to exercise their rights freely, they are able to play a key role in ensuring that other FLA Workplace Standards are implemented. Freedom of association is also an especially challenging standard to implement, and therefore one that has been the subject of various FLA efforts to ensure an environment in which workers can exercise this right freely.

This report is divided into three sections. Together these sections serve to inform readers about some of the universal and country-specific challenges that arise with regard to freedom of association and efforts the FLA is making to overcome them.

1. A brief overview of the standard and the challenges to its implementation
2. A review of the FLA's efforts to improve its approach to freedom of association
3. Discussions of situations in four countries where the right to freedom of association is limited in law and practice:
   • China
   • Vietnam
   • Bangladesh
   • Mexico