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Migrant Workers (23)
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Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations 
Helps migrant and seasonal farmworkers in South Florida and the Glades with emergency assitance, immigration, substance abuse and mental health, literacy and employment. Partnerships with UMOS and MAFO, conference dates.
http://www.coffo.org/
Commission for Farm Workers' Rights 
Based in Oxnard, California. Its main purpose is to help hard working immigrants and their families obtain justice and fair treatment.
http://cfwr.tripod.com
December18 
Network for the promotion and protection of the rights of migrant workers. In English, French and Spanish.
http://www.december18.net
Farmworker Justice Fund 
Monitoring, analysis and ways to get involved on issues affecting migrant and seasonal farmworkers, including labor and employment, occupational safety and health, farmworker women, immigration, and access to the justice system.
http://www.fwjustice.org
International Labour Migration 
Resources from the International Labor Organization including a migrant workers database, standards of work, and goals for improving conditions.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/
Justica For Migrant Workers 
Activists based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada promoting the rights of seasonal Caribbean and Mexican migrant farm workers who annually participate in the federal government's Caribbean and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (known as SAW).
http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org
Migrant Workers 
Articles, fact sheets and other resources from the International Labor Organization.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/actrav/genact/socprot/migrant/
Migrant Workers: who benefits? 
Summary and recommendations coming out of a conference held by the United Nations Association of the United Kingdom in 2002. Full report in PDF format available for download.
http://www.una-uk.org/HR/migrantrights.html
Migrant workers sue Wal-Mart 
Conditions of cleaners 'a step from slavery' lawyer alleges. Published in the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/supermarkets/story/0,12784,1082875,00.html
Migrants.Net 
Resources for migrant workers from the Mission for Filipino Migrant Workers Society in Hong Kong.
http://www.migrants.net
Migration Network 
Information on migrant workers in Lebanon.
http://www.lnf.org.lb/migrationnetwork/migrant.html
OneWorld.net - Migrant workers' rights: A breakthrough? 
Countries that consider themselves human rights champions are still reluctant to ratify the convention on protecting migrants' rights. Rosaura Audi argues the need for better communication between states, citizens and migrants.
http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/74234/1/
Overworked, underpaid and over here - Migrant workers in Britain 
Report from the Trades Union Congress in Britain on issues surrounding migrant workers including the impact on labour in Britain. Introduction is free though the full report is accessible only by purchase.
http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-6878-f0.cfm
The Migrant Experience 
Examination of the experience of migrant workers in California (Mexicans and "Okies") during the first half of the twentieth century.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html
The Migrant Workers 
Background from a website on the works of John Steinbeck, author of the Grapes of Wrath.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~anny/thepeople.html
The Special Plight Of Migrant Workers 
Radio Netherlands article by by Arjan Schippers examines the conditions faced by migrant workers in Europe.
http://www.rnw.nl/society/html/migrant020102.html
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