News and Events

Announcements

• India conducts a pilot study in the first year of an international project on law and the informal economy
  
  
• Domestic Workers build an international network and campaign for an International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention on Domestic Work
  
  ILO Report 1V(1), Decent work for domestic workers
  This report is a first step in the process towards an ILO Convention on Domestic work. The report is meant to facilitate preparation and discussion at the ILC 2010. It is accompanied by a questionnaire to be completed by the governments in member states in consultation with the most representative union and employers organisations. Domestic workers need to make their voices heard by working with trade union federations on the questions.
  
  The ILO has produced a Powerpoint presentation which summarises the Report (pdf format).
  
  
• Domestic Workers: Events toward an ILO Convention
  
  
• More domestic workers news: Domestic Workers’ International Conference Report, Domestic Worker Network Steering Committee formed, Leaflet published “Domestic/Household Workers Demand respect and our rights!”
  
  
• Routledge Publishes Membership Based Organizations of the Poor book
• Call for Papers: "Beyond the Tipping Point: Development in an Urban World," UNU-WIDER Project Workshop
  
  
• WIEGO Joins the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)
  
  
• Call for Papers for an International Conference Organized by Cornell University and the International Policy Center called "Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies: Emerging Policy and Analytical Issues"
  
  
• Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joins AFL-CIO President Sweeney, former President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Inez McCormack, and AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity in honoring the Self Employed Women's Association and Ela Bhatt with the George Meany - Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award
  
  
• WIEGO Social Protection Programme Director Francie Lund co-edits ELDIS Gender Issues Resource page highlighting Social Protection and Gender as a key issue in international development
  
  
• WIEGO authors contribute to special "Review of Labour" issue of Economic and Political Weekly
  
  
• Ela Bhatt named Graduation Speaker for the 2006 Commencement Exercises at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
  
  
  
• AFL-CIO awards the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award to Ela Bhatt of SEWA
  
  
  
• StreetNet International Co-ordinator deported from Zimbabwe
  
  
  
• WIEGO writes UNIFEM's Progress of the World's Women 2005
  
• SEWA under Attack (español)

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