COVID-19 Crisis Study

COVID-19, Cities & Urban Informal Workers: An International Perspective

Presentation delivered by Dr. Marty A. Chen, International Coordinator Emeritus and Senior Advisor, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing...

COVID-19, Plastic Pollution and the Green Recovery

• June 10, 2020
• Online

The COVID-19 pandemic has created devastating setbacks for the environmental sector, including the movement to transition away from single-use...

HNEE Petition: Emergency Minimum Income for Unofficially Registered Employees – Now!

Text of the petition We call on the European Union to create a financial instrument to support all informal workers with the introduction...

For World’s Street Vendors, Life May Never be the Same after COVID-19

Street vendors provide essential services in cities across the globe, particularly in Africa, Asia and South America, where residents rely...

Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Labour and Employment in India: Impact, Strategies and Perspectives

• June 8, 2020 - June 9, 2020
• Online

COVID-19 na Wafanyakazi Bilioni Mbili Duniani wa Uchumi Usio Rasmi

Jukwaa la mshikamano wa kimataifa la Mtandao wa WIEGO  Mei 1, 2020 English   Español   Français   Hindi   

ILO Director-General calls for global solidarity to address COVID-19’s unequal harm

The director-general of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, talks to Al Jazeera about the twin pressures on nations of...

Resilience on the front lines: Building clean, healthy cities for clean, healthy seas

• June 2, 2020
• Online

On Tuesday, 2 June, 7:30 am – 8:30 a.m. EDT, waste sector specialist from WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, Dr. Sonia M. Dias, joined global...

Resources: COVID-19 Guidelines for Informal Traders in South Africa

COVID-19 Poster Guidelines for Informal Traders (in streets, markets and spaza shops) Poster  

Gendered Precarity in the Lockdown (India)

SEWA Bharat – the All India Federation of Self-employed Women’s Associations – has published the results of a phone survey it conducted in...