With youth unemployment rates at record highs and working poverty levels increasing, young workers around the world faced with a lack of decent jobs increasingly are joining with union movements and worker associations to challenge policies that do not promote an...
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Nepal Reconstruction Offers Chance to Create Decent Jobs
As Nepal rebuilds two years after a major earthquake killed thousands of people and displaced millions, the country has an opportunity to achieve more equitable economic development by laying the foundation for an environment that fosters good jobs that sustain...
‘Growing Level of Intolerance against Labor Migrants’
Xenophobia and racism are embedded in the daily economic and social situation of labor migrants and refugees, according to Joseph Rudigi Rukema, a sociology professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. “The world is witnessing a growing level of intolerance against...
Migrant Workers in Africa: In Their Own Voices
Some 34 million Africans are migrants, and the majority are workers moving across borders to search for decent work—jobs that pay a living wage, offer safe working conditions and fair treatment. Yet even as they often leave their families in search of jobs that will...
Women Nearly Half of Labor Migrants in Africa
An estimated 998,000 African migrants entered South Africa between 2011 and 2015, says Mondli Hlatshwayo, coordinator with the Center for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg, where he researches community and trade union education,...
Make People > Profits: UN Special Rapporteur
Millions of workers in the global economy have been disenfranchised from their rights, either tacitly or deliberately by governments, exacerbating “global inequality, poverty, violence and child and forced labor,” says Maina Kiai, United Nations Special Rapporteur on...
Trafficking Report Highlights Uzbekistan Abuses
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, two countries where forced labor in cotton harvests is rampant, have been downgraded to the lowest ranking in the U.S. State Department’s 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report released this morning. The report also downgraded Myanmar (Burma)...
Migrant Workers Empowered by Forming Unions
“Organizing campaigns that are led by migrant workers themselves are making the impossible possible,” says Tefere Gebre, AFL-CIO executive vice president, succinctly summing up the discussion that opened the second day of the conference Labor Migration: Who Benefits?...
Vulnerable Workers Targets of Gender-Based Violence
Participants in Monday’s final session of the Solidarity Center labor migration conference engaged in a lively discussion with panelists in a discussion of migrant workers’ vulnerability to gender-based violence. Lisa McGowan, senior specialist for gender equality,...
Testimony
SHAWNA BADER-BLAU, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Future of U.S.-Taiwan Trade Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, September 14, 2022. Video: Bader-Blau’s oral testimony, September 14, 2022....
Human Trafficking Fueled by Migrant Worker Vulnerability
Migrant workers’ high vulnerability to human trafficking is one of three main factors involved in labor trafficking in Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia, said Neha Misra, Solidarity Center senior specialist for Migration and Human Trafficking in testimony on Capitol...
Tunisian Women: Sustaining the Fight for Equal Rights, Sources (2013)
The primary sources for this publication were first-person interviews conducted by the Solidarity Center in 2012. Additional sources are noted below. A History of Modern Tunisia, Kenneth Perkins, Cambridge University Press, 2004 U.S. State Department, country...