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Send a Child to School

For $30, you can help this 12-year-old boy and thousands like him stay out of the mines and in school. Learn more

Be Part of the Picture

Add your photo to more than 2,000 sent by workers around the world to create a mosaic of Zimbabwe labor leaders Lovemore Motombo and Wellington Chibebe. Read more

The True Cost of Shrimp uncovers pervasive worker and human rights abuses in the $13 billion global seafood processing industry.

U.S. Union Leaders Meet Champions of the Colombian Labor Movement

A six-member U.S. labor delegation made a weeklong visit to workers and labor leaders in Colombia. The purpose of the trip was to build greater understanding of the struggles that Colombian workers face in their daily lives. Read more

Lack of Visas Forces Iraqi Union Women Activists to Cancel Long-Planned U.S. Visit

The groundbreaking Solidarity Center exchange program would have given U.S. and Iraqi worker and women’s rights activists a chance to build bridges and lasting relationships. Read more

Yemeni Trade Union Leaders Develop Strategies for Protecting Worker Rights

Yemen, located at the mouth of the Red Sea, is one of the poorest countries in the Arab world. Union leaders gathered recently in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a to share their solutions for meeting the challenges that workers face every day in their struggle to make a decent living. Read more

Global Union Leader: World Food Crisis Is a "Crime"

"If access to safe, nutritious food is a fundamental human right, why are 820 million people living in hunger today?" demands Ron Oswald, General Secretary of the IUF, the Global Union Federation that represents food, farm, and hotel workers worldwide. Read more

Another Iranian Bus Drivers Union Leader Arrested

The Solidarity Center joins the global labor movement in expressing deep concern over the arrest of Gholamreza Gholamhosseini, an executive board member of the Sherkat-e Vahed bus drivers union in Tehran. Read more

Labor Around the World: Images of Workers
by Workers

Photos of workers around the world, in urban and rural settings, formal and informal work environments, blue- and white-collar jobs, link the work of our brothers and sisters in other countries to our own work here at home and remind us that we are all part of the global economy. Click here to view a slide show.

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Court decision restores Egyptian worker rights organization. Read more

Qatari National Human Rights Committee visits Solidarity Center to exchange worker protection strategies. Read more

Solidarity center mourns killing of Somali journalist. Read more

Indonesian labor hero Hanafi Rustandi visits U.S. to promote international solidarity in the transport sector. Read more

Zim union leaders on bail, at home, lips sealed. Read more

Solidarity Center joins global labor movement in Stand Up for Zimbabwe! campaign, launched May 25.
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Somali journalists union receives special democracy award at World Movement for Democracy Congress. Read more

AFL-CIO, Guatemalan unions file first-of-its-kind complaint for worker rights violations. Read more

Iranian labor leader Mahmoud Salehi freed after a year in prison.
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"Shock and sorrow" at shooting of Iraqi journalists union leader. Read more

Unionists in Pakistan speculate on what U.S. elections will mean for democracy in their country. Read more

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