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Links with Economic Growth/Crisis December 21, 2022From Organizing Workers to Organizing Humanitarian Aid
Between July and September 2022, StreetNet International, Cities Alliance and WIEGO interviewed Ukrainian women – most self-employed traders...
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Organizing Briefs
The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan
This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...
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Policy/Position Documents
Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City
Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City WIEGO organized a dialogue on economic recovery for the informal...
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Building Collective Power November 10, 2022Recognition and Respect Could Change Street Vendors’ Lives
In this interview, StreetNet International Coordinator Oksana Abboud talks about how and why street vendors became organized and her hopes...
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Access to Public Space October 25, 2022Subverting Master Planning to Advance Informal Worker Interests: Lessons from Delhi
Heeding the United Nations call to share transformative approaches to local action on World Cities Day, Focal Cities Coordinator Jenna Harvey...
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Building Collective Power October 12, 2022Joining Hands to Organize Home-Based Workers
In this interview, HomeNet International Coordinator Janhavi Dave tells us of proud moments in the home-based workers’ movement and shares...
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Policy Briefs
Claiming Space for Informal Work in Master Planning: Reflections from a People’s Campaign in Delhi
Master plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of...
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Building Collective Power September 22, 2022Unity of Informal Workers is Key to Domestic Workers’ Success
In this interview, Elizabeth Tang, General Secretary of the International Domestic Workers’ Federation (IDWF), tells us what she hopes to...
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Building Collective Power September 19, 2022Waste Pickers Take the Podium at UN Environment Assembly
The hall was filled with official delegations, representatives and environmentalists, activists and organizers from more than 150 countries...
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Building Collective Power September 19, 2022Global Plastics Treaty: Waste Pickers Ready to Talk
“We are the face of recycling in the world, we are the hands that clean the world, we are the real heroes of the planet and nothing you try...
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