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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A successful holiday campaign thanks!
The Board of Directors for Women on the Border thanks all of those who donated to our migrant rent assistance campaign at the 2021 holiday season. We said any amount helps. We reached the goal of $3,000 and mailed $500 checks to landlords on behalf of six...
AUSTIN’S WOMEN AND FAIR TRADE FESTIVAL 2021
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is hosting the Women and Fair Trade Festival on Saturday, Nov. 20, from 10 am till 6 pm. This event offers Austin area shoppers an opportunity to support women's cooperatives from around the world by purchasing beautiful, colorful,...
Labor Day 2021 Webinar — Hear the women of the C.F.O.
Join Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera for a webinar on Labor Day! ¡Reúnete con Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera y asiste al webinario el 6 de septiembre! *Simultaneous interpretation provided. / Habrá interpretación simultánea. This webinar will be hosted by our...
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