Jan Vikas Samiti
Since 1998 Jan Vikas Samiti (JVS) is dedicated to the holistic development of marginalized communities, with a particular focus on women, children, and persons with disabilities. Through its initiatives in Women Empowerment, Community Health, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Livelihood Promotion, Skill Development, and the Rehabilitation of Children with Disabilities, JVS addresses critical societal needs through innovative and community-driven approaches. Key milestones of JVS include the establishment of 60 Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in 2001, which has grown to 828 SHGs in 2024, empowering over 10,000 women through financial literacy, access to credit, and platforms for collective action.
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Address: Vill. & post- Murdaha, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221202, India
Tel: 0542 2626 022
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Website: www.janvikassamiti.org
National Workers Welfare Trust (NWWT)
National Workers Welfare Trust (NWWT), India, was established in 2017 with the vision to create a just society where all domestic women migrant workers are treated with dignity and justice and recognised for the contribution that they make towards the family, economy, and development. Working in the Indian states of Telangana and Andra Pradesh, NWWT brings women workers from the various self-employed trades together to discuss concerns and rights on their health, education for children, welfare services, and labour rights, both at the rural/urban grassroots level and national scales. NWWT advocates for rights, repatriation, and reintegration of women migrant domestic workers, both nationally and internationally.
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Website: https://nationalworkersmovement.wordpress.com/
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Anti-Racism Movement (Lebanon)
Launched in 2010, the Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) began as a grassroots collective of Lebanese feminist activists and migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon, and has been aregistered non-profit organization for over thirteen years. As migrant workers are unable to register their own organizations, ARM is one of few organizations in Lebanon focusing specifically on migrant workers, and one of even fewer working with migrant workers on long-term and sustainable change with an anti-racism approach. They work to abolish the Kafala system and build an alternative future for all migrant workers and racialized groups in Lebanon, with a specific focus on migrant domestic workers. Their theory of change shifts the positionality of migrant workers from“beneficiaries” to leaders and agents of change, taking a migrant-centered and feminist approach throughout their programming.
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Address: Jisr El-Wati, Street 90, Zone 66, Building 110, first floor, Beirut, Achrafieh
Tel: (+961) 21-428338
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Website: https:www.armlebanon.org
Just Economy and Labor Institute (JELI)
Just Economy and Labor Institute (JELI) is a non-profit organization working to promote social justice and ensure the protection of labor rights in Southeast Asia, with the focus on Thailand. We support workers and labor organizations by offering educational and capacity-building programs. We also partner with rights-based organizations that share our vision and mission to conduct research and propose policy recommendations aimed at achieving economic and labor justice.
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Address: 666 Charoen Nakhon Road, Banglamphu Lang, Khlong San, Bangkok 10600
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Website: www.justeconomylabor.org
Awaj Foundation
Awaj Foundation aims to redress the structural problems in the garment industry, raise awareness on the issues that garment workers face, train workers on their rights and responsibilities under national and international labor law frameworks. Awaj’s actively builds leadership capacity and negotiation capability of women workers as they are the majority of the workforce in the industry as Awaj believes that leadership from women can transform the society towards greater equity and justice. They also work on prevention of gender-based violence and sexual harassment against women (at work and at home) by campaigning, providing factory level awareness training, advocacy including demanding for ratification of ILO C190, focuses on training financial independence, reproductive health services for women workers to help improve their lives. It has also expanded the scope of its work beyond the garment sector to areas such as women migrant workers in the RMG sector, precarious workers and working conditions in the leather and textile sectors. Awaj’s overseas migration program assists workers, particularly migrant women, through all stages of the migration process.
Contact details:
Address: 5/F, 3rd Floor, Rasulbagh, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212
Telf: +88029830067
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Website: awajfoundation.org
Biswas Nepal
Biswas Nepal is a women-led organisation established in 2008. It has been working in the entertainment sector with an aim to make it decent and prestigious with secured rights and respect to the workers. Biswas Nepal has been engaged in various advocacy activities to develop laws and policies to address the issues of entertainment sector workers. It has been continuously organising interaction and orientation not only at Province level but also at Ministry level. By affiliating and holding vital position at different networks, it is continuously advocating for the rights of the entertainment sector workers and victims of internal trafficking. Additionally, Biswas Nepal holds a position in the board of Alliance against Trafficking in Women & Children in Nepal (AATWIN), with which it lobbies the government to prioritise the issues of this sector.
Contact details:
Address: Kathmandú New road-22, Nepal
Tel: +977015713928
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Website: www.biswasnepal.org.np
Shanti Foundation
Shanti Foundation is a non-profit community-based organisation by and for human trafficking survivors and women living with HIV established in 2016. It aims to transform their grief and shame into courage and power so that other women and girls like them don’t have to face the same stigma and discrimination. The vision of Shanti Foundation is to create a world free of stigma and discrimination where all human trafficking survivors, HIV and AIDS-infected/affected women, youth, and children will lead a life of quality and productivity with equality and freedom in society. Shanti Foundation works for the successful reintegration of human trafficking survivors and HIV/AIDS-infected/affected women, youth of all genders, and children through counselling, prevention and protection, treatment, and the development of sustainable livelihoods and economic empowerment. It emphasises the successful reintegration of human trafficking survivors and HIV-infected and affected women and girls in the family and society, increase level of awareness, protection, access to treatment, empower socially and economically human trafficking survivors, people living with HIV, vulnerable girls and women, youth and children that contribute to prevent and control trafficking in order to ensure their fundamental rights.
Currently, Shanti Foundation works in seven districts of Nepal, namely Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Kavrepalanchok, Sindhupalchok, Ramechhap and Makwanpur. It has provided services to over 7,500 vulnerable and marginalised women, children and communities. It has been relentlessly working on rescue, prevention, protection, partnership and policy in combating the human trafficking. The organisation also creates opportunities for exchanging knowledge and learning for ongoing research, post-secondary practicum placements, and volunteer works. Shanti Foundation promotes and supports the shared learning, partnerships, and connections which are formed through these experiences.
Contact Details:
Address: Kumarigal-06, Boudhha, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: +977 9849910144; +977 9843790549
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Website: shantifoundation.org.np
Sajag Samaj Sevi Sanstha
Sajag Samaj Sevi Sanstha started its work in 2007 with the objective of working for the rights of the Dalits and Adivasi communities in the State of Chhattisgarh, India. Sajag Samaj Sevi Sanstha with their grass-roots level interventions with the local communities, have formed women’s collectives. Sagaj Samaj Sevi Sanstha's work focuses on thematic areas of human trafficking, sexual violence, health rights, livelihood and workers’ rights. They have worked to mobilise youth in the local community to ensure there is implementation of government schemes. Additionally, they have implemented projects on menstrual health and hygiene for adolescent girls, leadership building of Dalit women, violence against women and livelihood generation for local communities. Sajag Samaj Sevi Sanstha has organised and mobilised local communities on forest rights and displacement in the name of development.
Contact Details:
Address: Ram sagar para ward –N. 05 Pithora District – Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh 493551
Tel: +91 8305774391
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