Social Justice Education

Border enforcement and free-trade policies directly affect the lives of working people and immigrants. Researchers, advocates, and activists for human rights can find history and resources on this site.

Women and Globalization

Exploitation in global factories has led women workers to fight for fair wages and empower themselves through fair trade networks.

Reimagining the Border

With social critique and humor artists and activists reimagine human relationships along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Immigration and Detention

Women on the Border offers resources for the struggle to uphold the human rights of migrants and the undocumented.

Our History

Women on the Border was founded in 2001 to support the empowerment of women working in the NAFTA factories (maquiladoras) at the U.S.-Mexico border.

In recent years, as U.S. policy has become more hostile than ever to migrants, workers, and people of color, Women on the Border has sought to promote scholarship and activism calling for freedom, justice and human dignity.

Read Our Blog

Economic boycotting for change?

by Elvia Arriola | Feb 20, 2025 | Migrants and Human Rights

Economic boycotting Boycotting as a tool to effect social change has a long history in the U.S.A. This organization supports the tool of the economic boycott. We were founded in 2000 with a mission of raising awareness over the impact of NAFTA on working women in the...

Help NGOs targeted for providing aid to immigrants and refugees

by Elvia Arriola | Feb 16, 2025 | Migrants and Human Rights

On the day of his inauguration President Trump signed several executive orders including one that targeted non-governmental organizations providing any kind of aid to undocumented individuals. Federal courts have ordered the Trump administration to resume funding for...

Help the organizations impacted by the current freeze on refugee aid

by Elvia Arriola | Feb 15, 2025 | Migrants and Human Rights

The following is an important plea for help from Austin Jews and Partners for Refugees. Dear Friends! Because funds for all federally-funded refugee services are either shut off or continue to be indefinitely frozen, refugee agencies in Central Texas have now been...