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 Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru—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 Latin America regional program provides training, mentorship and legal support to domestic workers, with an emphasis on empowering women, improving migrant workers’ access to justice and combating discrimination in the workplace based on gender, race and migration status. Learn more about Solidarity Center's Work in the Americas

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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

• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Peru

Sectors

• Human Rights Democracy and Governance

Other projects