International Labor Rights Fund
International Labor Rights Fund
"In the 1980's, strong voices in human rights, labor, policy making, academic, and religious communities formed a coalition to fight for the rights of workers in international trade. In 1984, the coalition fought for legislation linking the granting of U.S. trade and investment benefits to a country's respect for basic human rights. In 1986, they launched the International Labor Rights Education & Research Fund (its name was later shortened to the International Labor Rights Fund, (ILRF)) to monitor enforcement of these laws and to develop other means to protect workers' rights." [1]
International Labor Rights Fund is a member of the Business Ethics Network and profiled in the WiserEarth database at: [2]
- Bama Athreya - Executive Director
Companies Targeted in Campaigns
In a May 1, 2008 email to John Stauber the ILRF said: "we are running corporate campaigns at some level targeted at the following companies: cut flowers - Dole; food and manufactured goods supply chain - Wal-Mart; and, rubber plantation in Liberia - Firestone.
Directors
- Bill Fletcher (President) - Consultant
- John Cavanagh (Vice President) - Director, Institute for Policy Studies
- Christopher Townsend (Secretary-Treasurer) - Washington Staff, United Electrical Workers
- Bama Athreya (Executive Director) - International Labor Rights Fund
- Arturo Alcalde Justiniani - International Affairs Director, National Association of Democratic Lawyers of Mexico
- May Chen - Vice President, UNITE-HERE
- Terry Collingsworth - Labor Rights Advocates
- Lance Compa - School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
- Sarita Gupta - Interim Executive Director, Jobs with Justice
- Sandra Polaski - Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for Peace
- Katie Quan - Labor Specialist, Center for Labor Research and Education, University of Califronia at Berkeley
- Jeff Rechenbach - Vice President, Communications Workers of America
- Carol Rosenblatt - Executive Director, Coalition of Labor Union Women
- Omar Salazar - ASEPROLA in Costa Rica
- Kailash Satyarthi - President, South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude, New Dehli, India
International Advisory Council
- Bishop Jesse De Witt (President Emeritus) - United Methodist Church
- Ray Marshall (President Emeritus) - U.S. Secretary of Labor (1977-81), Professor, University of Texas at Austin
- Peggy Billings - United Methodist Church
- Jack Blum - Attorney, Lovel, Novings, Lamont and Flug
- Robin Broad - Professor, The American University
- Anita Chan - Senior Researcher, Australian Research Council, Australian National University
- Audrey Chapman - Director, Human Rights Program, American Assn. for the Advancement of Science
- Steve Charnovitz - Attorney, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
- Sarah Cleveland - University of Texas at Austin School of Law
- Representative Lane Evans - U.S. House of Representatives (D-IL)
- Keith Geiger - President, National Education Association
- Mark Harrison - Program Director, United Methodist Board of Church and Society
- Jim Hightower - Commentator
- John H. Hovis - President, United Electrical Workers
- Kjeld Jakobsen - International Secretary, City Government of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Somsak Kosaisook - General Secretary, State Enterprise Worker Relations Confederation, Thailand
- Virginia Leary - Fromm Professor Emerita of International and Comparative Law, University of California (Hastings)
- Atherton Martin - Director, The Development Institute, Dominica, West Indies
- Muchtar Pakpahan - President, Indonesian Prosperity Workers' Union (SBSI), Indonesia
- Representative Bernie Sanders - U.S. House of Representatives (I-VT)
- Peter Weiss - Center for Constitutional Rights
- Robert White - President, Center for International Policy
Contact
2001 S St., NW #420
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 347-4100
Fax: (202) 347-4885
Email: laborrights (at) ilrf.org
Web: http://www.laborrights.org
