Featured Story Labour Rights are Human Rights! Beyond the Slogan for Workers in Informal Employment

Featured Story What the Digitalization of Formalization Efforts Means for Workers in Informal Employment

Featured Story Why African Craft Makers Should Understand Supply Chains Better

African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could overcome some of the challenges they are facing and improve their...

Featured Story How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People

By keeping corporations accountable for the waste they produce and providing affordable goods and services to working class people, recyclers and vendors in NYC are demonstrating an alternative to the...

Featured Story Overturning the Productivity Mandate: Putting People at the Centre

It is a myth that cooperatives, which put people at the centre, are not a viable alternative to the current economic system because they lack productivity. Improving working conditions and people’s well-being...

Featured Story The Devil Is in the Detail: The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability and Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains

How close collaboration between homeworker organizations and key allies secured a huge victory: for the first time, EU legislation on corporate sustainability will protect the human rights of all supply...

Featured Story ‘A Hungry Trader is an Angry Trader’: The Risks of Criminalizing Citizens Who Create Their Own Jobs

If governments cannot create jobs, yet criminalize citizens who create their own jobs, they risk social instability. Yet governments routinely refuse to engage with informal vendors to discuss an enabling...

Featured Story Street Vendors Organize Against Evictions in Dakar

Dakar’s street vendors have united in the PASI platform to assert their rights and propose alternative solutions to the evictions and relocations imposed by the authorities.

Featured Story Registering Informal Workers in India: e-Shram, an Opportunity Lost?

The launch of e-Shram, a national database of workers who earn a living in the informal economy, holds lessons for implementation going forward in India, and for governments in other countries interested...

Featured Story India’s KKPKP Fights for Waste Pickers Rights

Aditya Vyas, Treasurer for the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP), talks about the victories of the waste pickers in Pune and the impact on the sector of the Global Plastics Treaty.