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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.
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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.
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Responses to Black Lives Matter: Why “all lives matter” and “I don’t see color” miss the point.
Comments of WOB Board member, Donna J. Blevins, J.D., MPP I really don't get the extreme, overwhelmingly negative reaction by so many in the white community to the simple phrase "Black Lives Matter." When I see it, I think “yes, they do!” And I am not alone. But there...
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https://www.facebook.com/womenontheborder/videos/1180687812314859/ Speakers for Public Chat on issues of the lawsuits against ICE for failing to abide by Covid-19 CDC Guidelines and from 6000 Moms in Illinois.
COVID-19 PUBLIC CHAT via ZOOM
ONLINE PUBLIC CHAT -- THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020 7:00 PM CST Board members in Texas and Illinois, plus immigrant activists in West Chicago invite listeners for a conversation about the impact of Covid-19 on migrants, detainees and the immigrant community, Thursday,...
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Man detained at Georgia immigration detention center dies as hunger strike continues
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Death inside Folkston facility comes as officials allegedly threaten hunger strikers there with force-feeding
