Thank you to those who join us for the 2024 Global Labor Rights Defenders Celebration on May 1, International Workers’ Day. Together with workers, their unions, allies, and labor rights defenders around the world, we are building momentum for a more just global economy.
With that momentum, we announce that going forward, we will be known as Global Labor Justice.
Under this banner, we will continue to weave together and build on all of our organizational history to deliver bold new strategies that help workers win across the challenges inherent in global value chains and across labor migration corridors.
The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) was founded almost 40 years ago by Pharis Harvey and a progressive coalition of labor, human rights, faith, and policy leaders confronting the effects of economic globalization on workers and committed to building human rights and labor rights into U.S. trade and development policy. ILRF led several successful campaigns to secure labor rights guarantees under U.S. trade laws and trade agreements and ensure that labor rights are prioritized in the transformation of the global economy, working with allies in the US and around the world.