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  • Lima market vendor Post
    Building Collective Power April 29, 2019

    61 % des travailleurs et travailleuses du monde entier se battent encore pour une journée de travail de 8 heures

    Après la grève pour demander entre autres la réduction de leur temps de travail à Chicago, il y a 133 ans, qui a donné lieu à la fête du...

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  • food vendor at the Mercado Bolívar in Lima Post
    Building Collective Power April 29, 2019

    61% of the world’s workers still fighting for 8-hour day

    133 years after the Chicago working-time strike that gave rise to May Day, 2-billion workers continue to fall outside regulations for working...

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  • Street vendor in Dakar Post
    Building Collective Power March 21, 2019

    Invisibilité à Dakar : les travailleuses de l’économie informelle s’affirment contre

    À Dakar, au Sénégal, les femmes font face, hier et aujourd’hui, à des inégalités économiques et sociales — de l’analphabétisme à la pauvreté,...

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  • Street vendor in Dakar Post
    Building Collective Power March 21, 2019

    Women Informal Workers Challenge Invisibility in Dakar

    In Dakar, Senegal, women continue to face economic and social inequities — from illiteracy to poverty to gender discrimination — but it’s...

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  • Dakar focus group for women street vendors Post
    Building Collective Power March 08, 2019

    L’égalité des sexes : les travailleuses pauvres redéfinissent la voie à suivre

    En cette Journée internationale de la femme, WIEGO lance une série d’un mois sur la vie des femmes travailleuses de l’économie informelle....

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  • Dakar focus group for women street vendors Post
    Building Collective Power March 08, 2019

    Las mujeres pobres redefinen la forma de lograr la igualdad de género

    Con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer, WIEGO va a presentar una serie de artículos durante este mes de marzo para profundizar en las...

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  • sisterhood group Post
    Building Collective Power March 05, 2019

    Sisterhood: How Solidarity Led Indian Women to Take on Gender Discrimination

    Nazma is home-based worker who has often found herself at the mercy of the sub-contractors who employ her. But now she has joined forces...

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  • Pile of plastics Post
    Building Collective Power February 28, 2019

    New Project Explores How Waste Pickers Can Help Solve the Ocean Plastics Waste Crisis

    A Q&A with Taylor Cass Talbott It’s hard to miss the shocking images of heaping plastic floating in the middle of the world’s oceans...

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    Building Collective Power November 06, 2017

    Trabajadoras y trabajadores a domicilio de América Latina celebran la puesta en marcha de una nueva organización regional

    Los y las trabajadoras a domicilio de América Latina han dado un importante paso con la creación de un frente unido que luche por su visibilidad...

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    Building Collective Power October 20, 2017

    Latin American Home-based Workers Celebrate Launch of New Regional Organization

    Latin American home-based workers have taken an important step in creating a unified front to fight for their visibility and rights as workers....

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