COVID-19 Crisis Study

Innovación y unidad: Cómo se están adaptando las personas trabajadoras en domicilio al mundo de la COVID-19

Las personas trabajadoras en domicilio están entre las más invisibilizadas y descuidadas del mundo, y están demasiado familiarizadas con...

Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

Not just hunger but also safety: Relief for waste pickers during COVID-19

by Avi Singh Majithia  May 4, 2020

WEBINAR: Impacts of COVID-19 on care politics

• May 19, 2020
• Online @socialprotection.org

9:00 am EDT (GMT-4) – 11:00 a.m. Rachel Moussié, WIEGO’s Deputy Director of Social Protection participated in a webinar, WIEGO Impacts of...

Ela R. Bhatt explains how to rebuild a society less susceptible to debt, disease and devastation

Ela R. Bhatt, long-time activist, founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union in India, and also a founder of...

Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on a Home-Based Worker in Thailand

Miss Priyamas Sooksombat lives in Noan Sa-aad community in KhonKaen province in Thailand. She is a basket and handbags/bag weaver, whose...

Memorial Tributes

WIEGO’s page acknowledges the contribution of all informal workers and their leaders in this global crisis, and send our condolences...

Les travailleuse·eur·s les plus vulnérables de l’industrie du vêtement ne sont pas dans les usines : Les marques mondiales doivent les protéger

Les travailleuse·eur·s au bas de la chaîne d’approvisionnement du vêtement – des travailleuses sous-traitantes à domicile, notamment des...

Delhi Roundtable Network letter: Emergency relief for waste pickers

Letter to: Shri. Arvind Kejriwal, Hon. Chief Minister, NCT of Delhi Subject: Emergency support to Informal Waste Pickers in Delhi to combat...

Vegetables on Wheels in Ahmedabad, India: SEWA partners with municipality to ensure food access during lockdown

On March 24, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, announced a 21-day lockdown across India to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The very...