COVID-19 Crisis Study

Statement to Recognize Waste Collectors as Essential Workers

The purpose of this statement is to express the Waste Workers Occupational Safety and Health (WWOSH) Committee’s support for the recognition...

Recycling in Colombia: An Essential Service in the Time of COVID-19

In a webinar from WIEGO’s Workers´ Voices series, Nohra Padilla—leader of the Waste Pickers Association of Bogotá and ANR—shares with other...

El reciclaje en Colombia: Un servicio esencial en tiempos de COVID-19

En un seminario virtual de la serie La voz de las trabajadoras y trabajadores, Nohra Padilla, líder de la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá...

Le recyclage en Colombie : Un service essentiel en temps de la COVID-19

Dans un webinaire de la série La voix des travailleuse·eur·s, Nohra Padilla, dirigeante de l’Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) et...

COVID-19 Poster Guidelines for Informal Traders in Namibia

‘Punished for their poverty’: Street traders under COVID-19

Because it often takes litigation to get city authorities to protect informal traders’ rights, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South...

WIEGO joins call for IMF to stop promoting austerity measures in the COVID-19 recovery period

We, the undersigned, call on the IMF to immediately stop promoting austerity around the world, and instead advocate policies that advance...

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study

WIEGO and our partners are listening long and hard to informal workers through our multi-city study: COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy....

Global Day of Action: Invest in Care, Now!

WIEGO is joining the Global Day of Action for Care on 29 October 2020, calling on governments to invest in public health and care service...

Reaching the ‘missing middle’: Social protection for informal workers in COVID-19

With formal workers buffered to some extent by the protection provided through their formalized work relations, and the poorest of the poor...