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Quarterly Highlights
January - March 2023

Welcome!
The Quarterly Highlights is a snapshot of Solidarity Center programs and organizational activities. The Solidarity Center works around the globe helping workers build collective voice and more just societies through organizing and advocacy.
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** SUMMIT FOR DEMOCRACY: NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT UNIONS
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The first Summit for Democracy event in Africa ([link removed]) , held in March and co-hosted by the Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights (M-POWER ([link removed]) ) and the Zambian Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), brought together labor leaders who underscored how unions can strengthen and advance democracy through worker rights. See our photo essay from the event here ([link removed]) and coverage of another official side event on worker rights in Washington, DC, here ([link removed]) .


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** HAITI: UNIONS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN RESTORING $1 MILLION TO GARMENT WORKERS
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Union activism was integral in getting $1 million in back wages and benefits ([link removed]) restored to garment workers in Haiti after they were left jobless when their factory suddenly closed in December.
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** KYRGYZSTAN: WINNING PROTECTION AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
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Unions and working women celebrated the publication of a draft law ([link removed]) to ratify ILO Convention 190 to eliminate work-related violence and harassment, the result of a three-year campaign with the Solidarity Center to educate government officials, labor inspectors, unions and the public on the international treaty.

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** BRAZIL: COMMUNITIES & UNIONS WIN VICTORY FOR LIVELIHOODS, DEMOCRACY
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Brazilian communities along the Tocantins River near the Amazon are celebrating a decision to halt a blasting and dredging project ([link removed]) that could destroy their livelihoods and severely damage the environment.
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** NIGERIA: DECENT WORK INACCESSIBLE TO MOST WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES
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A new report by workers with disability, Securing Equal Access to Decent Work in Nigeria ([link removed]) , is the first of its kind for its sample size and breadth, as well as for the collaboration between trade unions and disability rights organizations.


** IN MEMORIAM
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** MYRTLE WITBOOI
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The global labor movement lost a pioneering leader on January 16 when Myrtle Witbooi ([link removed]) , general secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union ([link removed]) (SADSAWU) and president of the International Domestic Workers Federation ([link removed]) (IDWF), passed away after a valiant battle with cancer.


** THE SOLIDARITY CENTER PODCAST
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** Workers Speak Out: Unions Are Essential to Democracy ([link removed])

UPDATE: Kill a River, Kill Our Livelihoods: A Brazilian Community's Fight for Survival ([link removed])

Talk, Not Chalk! Kosovo Teachers Urge Dialog with Government ([link removed])
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The Solidarity Center Podcast:
BILLIONS OF US, ONE JUST FUTURE
Conversations with workers (and other smart people)
worldwide shaping the workplace for the better

You can listen to all the episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 at iTunes ([link removed]) , Spotify, ([link removed]) Amazon ([link removed]) , Sticher ([link removed])
or wherever you subscribe to podcasts.


** NEW VIDEOS
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In a new video series ([link removed]) , international labor leaders explain why democracy matters to them and to all workers, and why unions are essential to democracy.


** IN THE NEWS
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March 2023
Solidarity Center, OTUWA Kick Off New Strategy to Promote Affordable Healthcare ([link removed]) (West Africa)

February 2023
Authorities Aided Alleged Union-Busting at Puma-Supplying Factory ([link removed]) (Cambodia)

The Rights of LGBTIQ+ Workers: a Two-Day Training with Representatives of Trade Unions from the Western Balkans Takes Place in Tirana ([link removed])

January 2023
A Brief History of Grab in Southeast Asia: Transnationality, Dominance and Resistance ([link removed])

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