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.
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Delegate reflection, Cristina Murray
CHRISTINA MURREY SERVED AS PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THIS DELEGATION.
Ni Una Mas – Resolutions at UCLA Maquiladora Murders Conference (2003)
Resolutions of the Conference on the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez Produced at Los Angeles, California, November 2, 2003 1. We declare that the excessive number of kidnappings, tortures, and murders of girls and women in Ciudad Juárez and in the state of...
Judy Rosenberg, Doing Justice Work In Mexico
Since Josefina Castillo and I have made so many references to our work in Mexico, and since St. Hildegard's has given wonderful support for some of our projects, and we have in fact just completed a delegation in which Betsy Wilbur participated, I thought it was...
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