Maquiladora

Maquila Solidarity Network -  a Canadian labour and women's rights advocacy organization promoting solidarity with grassroots groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia working to improve conditions in maquiladora factories and export processing zones, www.maquilasolidarity.org.

Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network, MHSSN - a volunteer network of 400 occupational health and safety professionals who have placed their names on a resource list to provide information, technical assistance and on-site instruction regarding workplace hazards in the 3,000 "maquiladora" (foreign-owned assembly) plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. www.mhssn,.igc.org.

MHSSN  Newsletter, www.mhssn.igc.org/news10.htm.

Red Fronteriza de Salud y Ambiente, A.C. - a Border Health and Environmental Network  based in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico) www.redfronteriza.org (Spanish only).

Citizen Action in the Americas, a nonprofit policy studies center whose overarching goal is to help forge a new global affairs agenda for the U.S. government and people-one that makes the United States a more responsible global leader and partner, http://americas.irc-online.org/index.html  and  US-Mexico Border Information, http://americas.irc-online.org/clearinghouse.html.

Workers Rights Consortium -  a non-profit organization created to assist in the enforcement of manufacturing Codes of Conduct adopted by colleges and universities to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing college and university names respect the basic rights of workers. http://www.workersrights.org.

Social Accountability International -  works to improve workplaces and combat sweatshops through the expansion and further development of the international workplace standard, SA8000.  http://www.sa-intl.org.

Clean Clothes Campaign - works to improve working conditions and to empower workers in the global garment industry in order to end the oppression, exploitation and abuse of workers in this industry, most of whom are women. http://www.cleanclothes.org.

The Ethical Trading Initiative  - an alliance to promote and improve the implementation of corporate codes of practice which cover supply chain working conditions to ensure that the working conditions of workers producing for the UK market meet or exceed international labor standards.  http://www.ethicaltrade.org.

International Labor Codes of Conduct

International Labor Organisation - http://www.ilo.org.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Child Labor Coalition - http://www.stopchildlabor.org.

Mexico News

Maquila Market - Mexico's manufacturing industry.  http://www.maquilamarket.com.

ASIA

Asia Monitor Resource Center - focuses on labour concerns in Asia and the Pacific and in promoting workers' rights and democratic labour movements,  http://www.amrc.org.hk/about.htm.

Committee for Asian Women - Demanding employment, equal labor standards and participation in decision making for all women workers. http://www.cawinfo.org.

National Lawyers Guild - www.nlg.org

Texas Natural Resources Information Systems, Border Information Center
http://www.tnris.state.tx.us/bic.htm

IRC (Interhemispheric Resource Center) www.irc-online.org
Links re: policy -- also in Spanish

BIOS (Border Information and Outreach Service) www.us-mex.org/bios
Lists organizations that grant money for work on the Border

AFSC -  American Friends Service Committee-  www.afsc.org

Mexico Online -  www.mexonline.com/border/links.htm 

www.transnationale.org offers a listing and information on over 5,000 parent and border companies.

US-Mexico Border Health: Issues for Regional and Migrant Populations www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/98-8903.html
Health index, with chapter titles such as "Alcohol & Tobacco Advertising in the Border Region," "Heath Outreach Programs in the Colonias," etc.

RED MEXICANA DE ACCION FRENTE AL LIBRE COMERCIO (Mexico's version of Alliance for Responsible Trade) www.rmalc.org.mx

Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice (San Antonio, TX) www.esperanzacenter.org

ZAPATISTA NETWORK - a clearinghouse of Zapatista Information and support worldwide.
www.zapatistas.org

Activists/Worker's Rights

Maquila Solidarity Network - www.maquilasolidarity.org

Human Rights for Workers - www.senser.com

The Center to Protect Worker's Rights (construction industry) www.cpwr.com

Economic Investigations Collective for Community Action (Chiapas) - www.ciepac.org

Pertinent Agreements

For a copy of the NAFTA Agreement - www.nafta-sec-alena.org

NAFTA Secretariat Home Page, English, Spanish and French

International Law and the Global Economy

United Nations - www.un.org

World Trade Organization - www.wto.org

International Labour Organization - www.ilo.org

International Monetary Fund - www.imf.org

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - www.worldbank.org

Organization of American States - www.oas.org

Human Rights Watch - www.hrw.org

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights - www.lchr.org

International Trade

Alliance for Responsible Trade - www.art-us.org

The Hemispheric Social Alliance - www.asc-hsa.org

Alianza Social Continental (Spanish only)

Public Citizen Global Trade Watch - www.tradewatch.org

Free Trade Area of the Americas - www.ftaa-alca.org  

Post-NAFTA Threat

Anti-Sweatshop Links & Socially Responsible Consumption

Co-Op America's Green Pages Online - http://www.greenpages.org

Center for Action and Contemplation - http://www.cacradicalgrace.org/resources/consumption.html

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador - http://www.CISPES.org

Global Exchange - http://www.globalexchange.org

Sweatshop Watch - http://www.sweatshopwatch.org

Texas Fair Trade Coalition - http://www.texasfairtrade.org