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  • Waste picker in Belo Horizonte, Brazil Post
    Building Collective Power June 12, 2022

    4 Ways Informal Workers Use Cooperatives

    A delegation of workers at the recent ILC conference on Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy noted the importance of optimizing...

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  • Kayayei carry goods on their heads in Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana Post
    Child Care March 04, 2022

    International Women’s Day 2022

    For International Women’s Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic...

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  • Coura Ndiaye, a leader of Bokk Diom, washing bottles at the Mbeubeuss dump in Dakar, Senegal in January 2017 Worker Story

    Coura Ndiaye – a waste picker leader in Dakar, Senegal

    Coura Ndiaye – or “Mother Coura” as people call her out of respect for her age and the number of years she has worked as a waste picker –...

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  • Norma Palacios Worker Story

    Norma Palacios, a domestic worker leader in Mexico City

    Norma Palacios is one of the co-founders and leaders of SINACTRAHO, a domestic workers’ union in Mexico that seeks to raise awareness of...

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  • Renu at her stall in Bangkok, Thailand, before the pandemic, in 2015 Worker Story

    Renu, a Vendor Leader in Bangkok, Thailand

    ภาษาไทย   Renu is the leader of the Muubaan Nakila Service Cooperative, which is active in her housing estate in Bangkok. Along with other...

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  • Workstation of a home-based worker in Ahmedabad, India Worker Story

    Reshmaben Bashirkhan Pathan, a home-based worker organizer in Ahmedabad, India

    Reshmaben is an organizer with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She learnt tailoring from her mother when she was 14. Now, at...

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  • Kayayei carry a load full of goods on their heads at Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana Worker Story

    Rukaya Bawule, a kayayei leader in Accra, Ghana

    Rukaya Bawule is 26 years old and a leader of the kayayei, or headporters, in Agbogbloshie market in Accra, Ghana. Through her organization,...

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  • Policy Insights No. 9 thumbnail Report

    COVID-19 Vaccination and Informal Workers: Immunize, Don’t Marginalize

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 9 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to waste pickers based...

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  • Research Reports

    Home as Workplace: A spatial reading of workhomes – Part B

    This study looks at all the ways in which home aids work — spatially and infrastructurally — and illustrates the role of various factors...

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  • Research Reports

    Home as Workplace: A spatial reading of workhomes – Part A

    This study looks at all the ways in which home aids work — spatially and infrastructurally — and illustrates the role of various factors...

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