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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.
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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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Maquiladora Workers Could Use Stress Relief Training
STRESS RELIEF TRAINING FOR MAQUILADORA WORKERS If we know anything from the voices of maquiladora workers it is that they're under a lot of stress. They work on the average 6 days per week, about 10-12 hours. They have quotas. They get yelled at by supervisors to...
Yoga for Maquiladora Workers?
Breathing and Recovery for the Body of the Maquiladora Worker (2012) Elvia Rosales Arriola, Executive Director, WOMEN ON THE BORDER What if Women on the Border, as an aspect of our mission to educate, could take stress- relief training to the women in the...
Mission of Women on the Border
Women on the Border is a Texas-based 501c3 non profit organization engaged in educational projects involving contact with women who are fighting against abuses by U.S. based investor corporations under the North American Free Trade Agreement. We are dedicated to...
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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
