Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide
Quarterly Highlights
October - December 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.

AFL-CIO RECOGNIZES PHILIPPINE WORKERS, UNIONS FOR ‘COURAGE IN THE FACE OF EXTREME VIOLENCE’

Seven representatives of the country's labor movement accepted this year's George Meany–Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award 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. 

LATEST VIDEOS

A Bangladesh tea workers’ union is fighting for safer conditions as rising temperatures make backbreaking work even more perilous.
Groundbreaking work in Lesotho is a model for addressing gender-based violence and harassment in the global fashion industry.
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

SOLIDARITY CENTER WELCOMES WHITE HOUSE COMMITMENT TO GLOBAL LABOR RIGHTS

The Presidential Memorandum on Advancing Worker Empowerment, Rights and High Labor Standards Globally "represents the first time the U.S. government has made a holistic commitment to global worker rights."

16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE 

Check out how the Solidarity Center and its partners are working to build violence- and harassment-free workplaces and achieve decent, inclusive work for all.

KYRGYZ APP-BASED DRIVERS WIN FIRST COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT 

App-based drivers and 2 billion informal sector workers have few legal protections. Drivers and their union are changing that in Kyrgyzstan.

BELARUS: REGIME STILL RAIDING, JAILING LABOR AND DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS

The spouse of a leading dissident shared with our staff that Belarus has become “a conveyor belt of torture against political prisoners” jailed for defending democracy and the right to freedom of association.

UKRAINE: DOMESTIC WORKER SURVEY DOCUMENTS PERILS OF INFORMAL STATUS

Domestic workers experience low pay, wage theft, exclusion from the pension system and minimal capacity to exercise their right to freedom of association.

PHILIPPINES: SOLIDARITY CENTER CONDEMNS KILLING OF UNION LEADER JUDE THADDEUS FERNANDEZ

The Solidarity Center denounces escalating violence against union leaders and working people in the Philippines.

SOLIDARITY CENTER DENOUNCES VIOLENT ATTACK ON NIGERIAN UNION LEADER, WORKERS

Efforts to intimidate workers and their elected leaders through brutal attacks must be called out for what they are: violations of fundamental human rights." 

NEW PUBLICATIONS

In South Africa, 98 percent of women garment factory and retail workers reported experiencing one or more forms of gender-based violence or harassment (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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