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August 2009
WIEGO Social Protection Case Study: The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme Draft Document
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Mary Robinson
photo credit:
womensdialogue.org

Mary Robinson Named as Medal of Freedom Recipient. Read more.
SEWA receives MacArthur Foundation award, 2009 April 2009:
SEWA Receives Award From MacArthur Foundation. Read full story.
Ela Bhatt
 Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA and co-founder of WIEGO, was featured in the New York Times on March 7, 2008: a fitting tribute to Ela Bhatt and to SEWA on the eve of International Women's Day:

An Empire for Poor Working Women, Guided by a Gandhian Approach, by Somini Sengupta. The New York Times, Asia Pacific.

India Law Project Participants

India Law Project
WIEGO is coordinating an international project on law and the informal economy. India has been selected for carrying out a pilot study in the first year of the project
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Waste Pickers Without Frontiers

Waste Pickers Without Frontiers
WIEGO co-organizes the First World Conference of Waste Pickers in Bogota, Colombia, March 2008.
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ILO World Report 2008

World of Work Report 2008: "Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization." International Labour Organization (ILO). International Institute for Labour Studies (download)

Ela Bhatt, founder of Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), speaks at the the High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at UN General Assembly in New York. Sept. 2008 (download speech and news story)