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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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Living Wages
Living Wage Rights The idea of a "living wage" suggests that a person working a normal work week (about 40-50 hours) should earn enough money to meet the basic needs of shelter, food, medical care and entertainment with just enough left over to save for vacation,...
Judy’s report from the border (2001)
PERSONAL REPORT OF JUDY ROSENBERG, POST DELEGATION BY AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA TO PIEDRAS NEGRAS AND CIUDAD ACUÑA, COAHUILA, OCTOBER 12-14, 2001 Dear All, This is a personal report of the recent delegation to the border, which in many ways was a satisfying...
Hoodeet’s reflection from a border trip to meet the CFO (2001)
HOODEET'S REFLECTIONS Trip to Reynosa, Tamaulipas and Visit with the CFO June 6, 2001 Querid's, This is your Communications Coordinator speaking. I am on the verge of speechlessness. I have made too many travels and received too many impressions in the last few...
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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
