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July 30: First-Ever World Day against Human Trafficking
The United Nations today marks the first-ever World Day against Trafficking in Persons, created to raise awareness and highlight the plight of the millions of women, men and children who are trafficked and exploited, as well as to encourage people to take action to...
21 Million in Forced Labor Create $150 Billion in Global Profit
Some 21 million women, men and children are in forced labor, trafficked, held in debt bondage or work in slave-like conditions worldwide, and their toil generates an estimated $150 billion in illegal profits in the private global economy, according to a new...
Protests Continue Against Dominican Republic Citizenship Ruling
The Dominican Republic and Haiti remain in talks regarding a Dominican Republic court ruling last September that retroactively revokes the citizenship of all Dominicans born in the country to undocumented parents as far back as 1929. The ruling affects tens of...
Workshop Strategic Alliances for Working Women’s Rights: Unions and NGOs
Workshop Strategic Alliances for Working Women’s Rights: Unions and NGOs Panelists • Evangelina Argûeta Chinchilla, Coordinator, General Workers Confederation (CGT), and FESITRATEMASH, Honduras • Julia Quiñonez Amparan, Coordinator, Comitè Fronterizo de Obreros/as...
Plenary Leadership, Transformation and Labor Rights: The Essential Vision and Role of Women
Labor Historian Dorothy Sue Cobble discussed women's long history of union activism. Photo: Matt Hersey Plenary Leadership, Transformation and Labor Rights: The Essential Vision and Role of Women Panelists • Dorothy Sue Cobble, Distinguished Professor, Department of...
Working Women Empowered: Building Strength Through Unions
Women make up more than 40.5 percent of the workforce worldwide, according to the most recent data by the International Labor Organization. But their labor has not resulted in a similar increase in financial well-being. Far from it. Although women contribute 66...
Informal Economy Conference Agenda
Conference Summary and Proceedings Agenda Friday December 2, 2011 Keynote Address Shawna Bader-Blau, Executive Director, Solidarity Center Research Presentation: Trade Union Responses to Organizing in the Informal Economy Rutgers University researchers Panel Response:...