Building Collective Power

Inequalities and the World of Work: A Major Challenge of Our Time

• November 25, 2021 - December 11, 2021
• ILO Headquarters, Geneva
  Virtual

109th Session of the International Labour Conference  

Garment workers from production countries call for new EU supply chain directive to stop exploitative working conditions

Contact: Nicole Pryor – nicole.pryor@wiego.org, Graciela Mora – graciela.mora@wiego.org, Kendra Hughes – kendra.hughes@wiego.org Garment...

The Urgent Need to Question Senegal’s Commitment to Ensuring Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods

The restructuring of the Mbeubeuss dump where over 2,000 men and women earn their living is part of Senegal’s “acceleration” programme...

Enabling Social Protection within the Informal Economy: Lessons from Worker-led Schemes in Nigeria, Uganda and Togo

This synthesis report, for the “New Forms of Social Insurance for the Economic Inclusion of Women & Young Informal Workers” research...

Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Incorporating needs of home-based workers in city plans and policies (3)

This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

Winning a Right to the Sidewalks: Street Vendors in New York

This Brief seeks to identify and examine certain factors that led to the proposal to reform New York’s street vending legislation that...

MBO Newsletter September 2021

Advocating for Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine: Experiences from Informal Workers Around the World

• September 2, 2021
• Online

Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight TimeLanguages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi and Bahasa Indonesian.   Securing...

Home-Based Worker Organizations

Pocket Tools for Homeworkers Working in Garment Supply Chains is part of a series produced by the Home-based Workers Organizing for Economic...

Workers Take Fight for Social Protection to ILC

The global networks of workers in the informal economy including the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, HomeNet International, International...