WGS/SOC 337: Globalization, Women, and Work: Activist Organizations/Web Resources

In all our economic empowerment programmes, UN Women reaches out to women most in need, often by engaging with grass-roots and civil society organizations. Particularly marginalized groups include rural women, domestic workers, some migrants and low-skilled women. Our aims are higher incomes, better access to and control over resources, and greater security, including protection from violence.

"Is a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice."

The purpose of this Web site is to bring Government and NGOs in the East Asia and Pacific together to cooperate and learn from each other’s experiences in their efforts to combat human trafficking. This Web site has country-specific information such as national laws and action plans and contact information on useful governmental agencies. It also has a description of NGO activities in different countries and their contact information.

A web guide from the International Labour Organization, focusing on gender equality in the labor force.

" We hold global corporations accountable for labor rights violations in their supply chains. We advance policies and laws that protect workers. We strengthen workers’ ability to advocate for their rights."

“A movement and a non-governmental organization working with domestic workers, child domestic workers and migrant workers...active in 23 states of India and work towards achieving dignity for domestic work and workers, at both a national and international level.”

“A global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. It does so by highlighting the size, composition, characteristics, and contribution of the informal economy through improved statistics and research; by helping to strengthen member-based organizations informal workers; and by promoting policy dialogues and processes that include representatives of informal worker organizations.”