Like women around the world, Indonesian factory, farm and office workers frequently face sexual harassment, bullying, rape and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV) on the job—yet many are unaware that anything can be done to address it. Now, union women leaders...
Solidarity Center’s Indonesia program includes a strong advocacy component that involves working with unions to engage international corporate supply chain stakeholders and legal tools to advance and protect workers’ legal rights.
In Indonesia, the Solidarity Center seeks to increase the capacity of unions and human rights groups to empower workers, including those in the garment, palm oil, extractive and public sectors, so they have a voice in working conditions and can better provide for their families in a global economy rife with inequality.
The Solidarity Center provides training for workers and their unions in addressing and preventing sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence at work, and supports local partners in stemming the trend toward short-term employment contracts that offer no job security, social benefit protections or decent wages.
Solidarity Center’s Indonesia program also contains a strong advocacy component that involves working with unions to engage international corporate supply chain stakeholders, the media and domestic and international legal tools to advance and protect workers’ legal rights. The Solidarity Center conducts programs and advocacy around Just Transition—active engagement of actors in the world of work to promote sustainable development—in both the palm oil and extractive sectors, and provides training and support to Indonesian migrant workers and local government officials on human trafficking and worker rights.
Union Women Tackle Gender-Based Violence at Work
Women trade unionists in Indonesia and in Honduras and other Central American countries who are tackling gender-based violence at work often start by changing a culture of patriarchy within their own unions, according to speakers at a Solidarity Center-sponsored panel...
Migrant Domestic Workers Seek Rights in the Middle East
After spending seven years in Jordan as a domestic worker, Suryanti sought to return home to Indonesia to see her family. But her original employer, whom she left under duress, had confiscated her passport and would not give it back, leaving Suryanti in legal limbo as...