COVID-19 Crisis Study

Social Protection Responses Brief 7 – Spanish

Atteindre le « milieu délaissé » : Protection sociale pour les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel en temps de COVID-19

Les travailleuse·eur·s du formel, d’une part, ont été quelque peu touché·e·s par la protection offerte par leurs relations de travail officielles....

Cómo llegar al “sector intermedio olvidado”: Protección social para trabajadorxs en empleo informal durante la pandemia de COVID-19

Dado que la situación de lxs trabajadorxs en empleo formal se ve atenuada, hasta cierto punto, por la protección que reciben a través de...

Women, Informal Work & COVID-19: Data-based Policy Considerations

• October 21, 2020
• Online
  

2pm-3.30pm South African time

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...

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...

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...

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...