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Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide
Quarterly Highlights
October - December 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.


** AFL-CIO RECOGNIZES PHILIPPINE WORKERS, UNIONS FOR ‘COURAGE IN THE FACE OF EXTREME VIOLENCE’
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Seven representatives of the country's labor movement accepted this year's ([link removed]) George Meany–Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award ([link removed]) in Washington, D.C. The Solidarity Center has a 25-year partnership with the Philippine labor movement, including current support for an organizing campaign for low wage, app-based food delivery workers.
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** LATEST VIDEOS
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A Bangladesh tea workers’ union is fighting for safer conditions as rising temperatures make backbreaking work even more perilous.

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Groundbreaking work in Lesotho is a model for addressing gender-based violence and harassment in the global fashion industry.

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Check out this 5-part series of conversations between Solidarity Center’s Shawna Bader-Blau and ride-share and delivery drivers from around the world.


** SOLIDARITY CENTER AND PARTNER NEWS
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** SOLIDARITY CENTER WELCOMES WHITE HOUSE COMMITMENT TO GLOBAL LABOR RIGHTS
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The Presidential Memorandum on Advancing Worker Empowerment, Rights and High Labor Standards Globally ([link removed]) "represents the first time the U.S. government has made a holistic commitment to global worker rights."

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** 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
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Check out how the Solidarity Center and its partners ([link removed]) are working to build violence- and harassment-free workplaces and achieve decent, inclusive work for all.
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** KYRGYZ APP-BASED DRIVERS WIN FIRST COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
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App-based drivers and 2 billion informal sector workers have few legal protections. Drivers and their union are changing that in Kyrgyzstan. ([link removed])

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** BELARUS: REGIME STILL RAIDING, JAILING LABOR AND DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS
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The spouse of a leading dissident shared with our staff that Belarus has become “a conveyor belt of torture against political prisoners ([link removed]) ” jailed for defending democracy and the right to freedom of association.
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** UKRAINE: DOMESTIC WORKER SURVEY DOCUMENTS PERILS OF INFORMAL STATUS
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Domestic workers experience low pay, wage theft ([link removed]) , exclusion from the pension system and minimal capacity to exercise their right to freedom of association.

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** PHILIPPINES: SOLIDARITY CENTER CONDEMNS KILLING OF UNION LEADER JUDE THADDEUS FERNANDEZ
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The Solidarity Center denounces escalating violence ([link removed]) against union leaders and working people in the Philippines.
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** SOLIDARITY CENTER DENOUNCES VIOLENT ATTACK ON NIGERIAN UNION LEADER, WORKERS
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“Efforts to intimidate workers ([link removed]) and their elected leaders through brutal attacks must be called out for what they are: violations of fundamental human rights."


** NEW PUBLICATIONS
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In South Africa, 98 percent of women garment factory and retail workers reported experiencing one or more forms of gender-based violence or harassment ([link removed]) (GBVH), including physical and psychological abuse, unwanted sexual advances, bullying and rape, according to participatory action research designed and conducted by the Solidarity Center, unions and civil society organizations.


** SOLIDARITY CENTER IN THE NEWS
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October 2023
* Can Labor Solidarity Cross Borders? ([link removed]) (Mexico)
* Trade Union For Migrant Workers Launched in Bangladesh ([link removed])

December 2023
* Chlorine Attacks and Daily Harassment: Why Mexico’s Female Delivery Drivers Are Organizing ([link removed])


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