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REPORTS AND MANUALS

TUNISIAN WOMEN: Sustaining the Fight for Equal Rights (2013)
In 2011, Tunisian women helped spur protests and end autocratic regimes in Tunisia and throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Today, a Solidarity Center report finds Tunisian women remain in the forefront of ensuring democratic change in their country during the difficult years of government transition. The report is part of Catalysts for Change, a Solidarity Center series highlighting the working people, their unions and activists who are advancing worker rights and greater equity in their societies.

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SRI LANKA: Migrants Gain Voice and Protections (2013)
The Migrant Services Center, a Solidarity Center partner, is assisting migrant workers and their families in Sri Lanka while championing structural change through legislative and governmental processes. This report shows how the center offers a model for other labor and worker rights organizations, and is part of Catalysts for Change, a Solidarity Center series highlighting the working people, their unions and activists who are advancing worker rights and greater equity in their societies.

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DOMESTIC WORKERS: Winning Recognition and Protection (2013)
Many domestic workers around the world are vulnerable to exploitation and not recognized by national labor laws. But in the Dominican Republic, domestic workers have campaigned to make gains over the last two decades—and a new Solidarity Center report shows how. The report is part of Catalysts for Change, a Solidarity Center series highlighting the working people, their unions and activists who are advancing worker rights and greater equity in their societies.

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Unions Create Democratic Space in Zimbabwe (2013) Unions in Zimbabwe are ensuring the concerns of working people are heard—while highlighting issues feeding into the nation's poverty crisis, a Solidarity Center report finds. The report is part of Catalysts for Change, a Solidarity Center series highlighting the working people, their unions and activists who are advancing worker rights and greater equity in their societies.

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CAMBODIA: Vocal Coalition Makes Legal History (2013)
Cambodia’s nascent independent labor movement and human rights organizations worked to revise a labor law proposed in 2011 that would have significantly rolled back worker rights—and a Solidarity Center report describes how they did it. The report is part of Catalysts for Change, a Solidarity Center series highlighting the working people, their unions and activists who are advancing worker rights and greater equity in their societies.

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Solidarity Center Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund: Workers Helping Workers Recover and Rebuild. Final Report, January 2010-March 2013
Following the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, the Solidarity Center established a relief fund to route donations from U.S. unions and workers to Haitian workers and their families in need. The final report on these efforts, released on the third anniversary of the earthquake, describes how the Solidarity Center and its partners have made a significant impact in the lives of Haitian workers and their families.

The Plight of Shrimp-Processing Workers of Southwestern Bangladesh (2012)
Bangladesh’s labor code addresses pay, working hours, and on-the-job conditions. However, in the shrimp-processing industry, the code is not being adequately enforced. Bangladeshi shrimp-processing workers—the majority of whom are women—still face inadequate health and safety protections at work and receive less than the minimum wage, among other violations of their rights.

Solidarity Center 2011 Annual Report

Solidarity Center 2010 Annual Report
Through its regional and thematic programs in more than 60 countries, the Solidarity Center and its partners strive every day to hasten the success of union heroes and their allies in other worker rights organizations throughout the developing world as they struggle to build independent and effective unions.

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Degradation of Work: Oil and Casualization of Labor in the Niger Delta (2010)
This report explores how the degradation of work in the oil-rich Niger Delta jeopardizes the livelihoods and well-being of workers and their families and results in fewer opportunities for Nigerians to improve working and living conditions, especially in local communities that have seen little benefit from the profitable sector.

The True Cost of Shrimp (2008)
In the $13 billion seafood processing industry, workers pay the price for affordability. This report, the second in our Degradation of Work series, uncovers pervasive worker and human rights violations such as low-wage sweatshop conditions, use of child and forced labor, and global supply chains that drive wages down and hide the exploitation of workers.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective — The Kenyan Experience (2007)
This report, based on the findings of a 2006 Solidarity Center commissioned research study, documents the terrible abuse and exploitation of Kenyan workers recruited by employment agencies and employers to work in cities and countries far from their homes.

Peruvian Society, Workers, and Labor Law (2009)
To advocates of neoliberalim, Peru is a stellar example of progress, but to worker rights advocates, Peru illustrates the glaring social inequities and injustice that flow from the neoliberal approach.

Global Policy Brief: Ukraine: A Nation on the Brink? (2009)
Nearly five years after the Orange Revolution, employers and government authorities continue to harass, threaten, and otherwise act illegally against Ukraine's workers and independent unions.

Global Policy Brief: Workers' Freedom of Association Under Attack in Mexico (2008)
Mexico Country Program Director Ben Davis documents how, 14 years after the inception of the North American Free Trade Agreement and eight years after the end of one-party rule, Mexican authorities continue to violate the country’s obligations under national and international law to uphold core labor standards, including workers’ freedom of association.

Global Policy Brief: Iraqi Unions vs. Big Oil (2007)
Senior Program Officer Shawna Bader-Blau tells why unions should have played a part in developing Iraq's draft hydrocarbon law and why Iraqi workers, along with a growing number of supporters, theink the law would be a mistake.

Global Policy Brief: The Push and Pull of Globalization — How the Global Economy Makes Migrant Workers Vulnerable to Exploitation (2007)
Migration and Trafficking Coordinator Neha Misra discusses how global economic policies resulting in poverty, low wages, and unemployment drive workers to migrate, putting them at risk for human trafficking.

Health and Safety Organizing: A Worker's Guide (2010)
Unions make work safe. This 20-page manual contains information for union activists on how to form a union health and safety committee, map a workplace, conduct a worker survey, and document occupational injuries, accidents, and illnesses. It clearly delineates the employer's role in providing a safe and healthy workplace.

Tools for Organizers in Export Processing Zones and Industries (2007)
This 10-module toolkit offers an innovative approach to organizing that draws on workers’ organizing success stories. Available for download and in CD format.

NEW! Justice for All: A Guide to Worker Rights in the Global Economy (2009)
The latest edition of this comprehensive worker rights manual provides promoters and defenders of worker rights with accurate, timely information they can use in their fight for global worker justice. It cites ILO standards, specific trade pacts, and strategies for promoting corporate accountability. New chapters on informal and migrant workers offer insight into these growing economic trends.

Justice for All: Country Reports
This Solidarity Center series draws on interviews with workers, union leaders, and worker advocates to take a hard look at the state of worker rights in countries around the world.

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt (2010) examines Egypt’s current labor laws, how they align with international labor conventions, the Egyptian government’s record of enforcing of those laws, and whether its actions comply with each international core labor standard. The report comes at a time when workers in the thousands are holding an unprecedented number of strikes over a wide range of worker rights abuses. Winner of First Award for General Excellence for a Non-Periodical Publication in the International Labor Communications Association’s 2010 Media Awards Contest.

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Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Guatemala (2008) analyzes the overwhelming challenges that Guatemalan workers face in one of the most dangerous countries for trade unionists: crushing poverty, ethnic divisions, political fragmentation, and deeply rooted violence that has led to a culture of impunity.

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Thailand (2007) goes behind the scenes of this beautiful, tranquil country to describe the situation for workers who put in long hours at low pay, sacrificing their rights to create the atmosphere tourists enjoy and to make products used all over the world.

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Swaziland (2006) exposes how Swazi workers are trapped in the turmoil of the global economy, fighting for their jobs, their rights, and their very lives with one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world.

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Colombia (2006) focuses on the appalling conditions for workers in Colombia, the country with the highest assassination rate of trade unionists in the world. It also examines gender discrimination, child labor abuses, and how labor law, hiring practices, and failing labor authorities seriously undermine workers' attempts to organize.

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Jordan (2005) explores how Jordan can make a crucial commitment to follow a path toward democracy and social justice that will give working people a chance to share in the prosperity they help create.

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in China (2004) details China's blatant violations of the fundamental rights of its 800 million workers and calls on the global giant to honor its international obligation to respect worker rights.

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Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Mexico (2003) reveals a continuing, deeply rooted pattern of worker rights violations and concludes that ten years into the North American Free Trade Agreement, its promises remain unfulfilled.

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Sri Lanka (2003) describes how improving worker rights can help the country meet many challenges — including turning a fragile cease-fire into lasting peace and binding the wounds from a 20-year civil war that has taken more than 60,000 lives.

Solidarity Center Gender Programming Manual (2006). This 70-page handbook incorporates staff insights and experiences into checklists and tools needed to develop programs that redress gender inequity in the workplace, promote leadership roles for women, and move closer to achieving full worker rights.

When They Were Sold (2006)
Designed as a companion to Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia, this comprehensive report closely examines human trafficking patterns across nearly half of Indonesia’s 33 provinces. It also covers migrant workers, debt bondage, government enforcement efforts, and other key emerging issues. Available for electronic download only

Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia (2003)
This 300-page report was published as part of a joint Solidarity Center/International Catholic Migration Committee counter-trafficking campaign in Indonesia, where hundreds of thousands of young girls are lured away from their homes each year under false pretenses, sold into bondage, physically and sexually abused, sent out into the streets as beggars, or worse. Available for electronic download only

Economics in Indonesia: What Every Worker Needs to Know (2001)
This training manual, developed in partnership with leaders of seven Indonesian unions, is intended to help demystify complex economic issues for rank and file union members. Although it focuses specifically on the situation in Indonesia, the modules can easily be adapted for use in any country. Available for electronic download only

Unequal Equation: The Labor Code and Worker Rights in Haiti (2003)
This comprehensive report describes, analyzes, and documents workers' views of Haitian labor codes in an attempt to help ensure the survival of poverty-stricken Haitians and the rights they have fought so long to secure.