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Quarterly Highlights
January - March 2023

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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.

SUMMIT FOR DEMOCRACY: NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT UNIONS

The first Summit for Democracy event in Africa, held in March and co-hosted by the Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights (M-POWER) 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 and coverage of another official side event on worker rights in Washington, DC, here.

HAITI: UNIONS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN RESTORING $1 MILLION TO GARMENT WORKERS

Union activism was integral in getting $1 million in back wages and benefits restored to garment workers in Haiti after they were left jobless when their factory suddenly closed in December.

KYRGYZSTAN: WINNING PROTECTION AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Unions and working women celebrated the publication of a draft law 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.

BRAZIL: COMMUNITIES & UNIONS WIN VICTORY FOR LIVELIHOODS, DEMOCRACY

Brazilian communities along the Tocantins River near the Amazon are celebrating a decision to halt a blasting and dredging project that could destroy their livelihoods and severely damage the environment.

NIGERIA: DECENT WORK INACCESSIBLE TO MOST WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES

A new report by workers with disability, Securing Equal Access to Decent Work in Nigeria, 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

MYRTLE WITBOOI

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

THE SOLIDARITY CENTER PODCAST

Workers Speak Out: Unions Are Essential to Democracy

UPDATE: Kill a River, Kill Our Livelihoods: A Brazilian Community's Fight for Survival

Talk, Not Chalk! Kosovo Teachers Urge Dialog with Government

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, Spotify, Amazon, Sticher
or wherever you subscribe to podcasts.

NEW VIDEOS

In a new video series, international labor leaders explain why democracy matters to them and to all workers, and why unions are essential to democracy.

IN THE NEWS

March 2023
Solidarity Center, OTUWA Kick Off New Strategy to Promote Affordable Healthcare (West Africa)

February 2023
Authorities Aided Alleged Union-Busting at Puma-Supplying Factory (Cambodia)

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

January 2023
A Brief History of Grab in Southeast Asia: Transnationality, Dominance and Resistance

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