Global Labor Program: South Africa
Working with more than 300 labor unions, pro-worker nongovernmental organizations, legal aid groups, human rights defenders, women's associations, and advocacy coalitions around the world, in more than sixty countries—including South Africa—Solidarity Center's professional staff of more than 200 support and stand in solidarity with social-change activists around the world as they strive to build a global network of worker rights defenders and exercise their rights, including organizing for safer work sites, demanding living wages and improving laws (and the enforcement of existing laws) that protect working people, and fighting exploitation and abuse, and stand as a force for shared prosperity and inclusive economic development. Under the Global Labor Program—a five-year cooperative effort by the Solidarity Center and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote worker rights, gender equality and democracy worldwide—Solidarity Center’s South Africa program provides training, mentorship and legal support to farm workers, construction workers, domestic workers, street vendors and other workers in the informal sector, with an emphasis on strengthening labor protections, increasing workers’ access to justice, advancing gender and LGBT equality in the workplace and advocating for the rights of migrant workers. Learn more about Solidarity Center's work in South Africa
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Activities
Tailored to each country or region—and reaching workers in garment factories, home service, seafood processing, mining, agriculture, informal marketplaces, manufacturing, the public sector and beyond—USAID-funded Solidarity Center programs:
Locations
- South Africa
Sectors
- Human Rights Democracy and Governance
Other projects
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Global Labor Program: Ukraine
by Solidarity Center
in Ukraine -
Global Labor Program: Cambodia
by Solidarity Center
in Cambodia