International Labor Rights Forum ILRF (Global Labor Justice GLJ)

Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ - ILRF) is a new merged organization bringing strategic capacity to cross-sectoral work on global value chains and labor migration corridors. GLJ - ILRF holds global corporations accountable for labor rights violations in their supply chains; advances policies and laws that protect decent work and just migration; and strengthens freedom of association, new forms of bargaining, and worker organizations.

International Labor Rights Forum is a human rights organization that advances dignity and justice for workers in the global economy.

Our core work is three-fold:

1. We hold global corporations accountable for labor rights violations in their supply chains.

2. We advance policies and laws that protect workers.

3. We strengthen workers’ ability to advocate for their rights.

ILRF works with trade unions, faith-based organizations, and community groups to support workers and their families. We lead on initiatives such as making apparel factories safe in Bangladesh; stopping the exploitation of children in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan; increasing the income of farm workers in the cocoa fields of West Africa; developing labor law clinics in China; and supporting threatened union leaders in Latin America’s banana sector. ILRF’s work in Latin America carries forward the mission of the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP) and its founder Stephen Coats (1952-2013).

Mission
ILRF is dedicated to achieving dignity and justice for workers worldwide.

Vision
ILRF works for a world where workers have the power to speak out and organize to defend and advance their rights and interests; a world where workers have the right to form unions and bargain collectively to secure a safe and dignified life for themselves and their families; and a world where everyone is free from discrimination, forced labor and child labor.