Global Advocacy and Negotiations

Qui travaille vraiment à l’écologisation des villes d’avenir ?

Alors que la COP25 est lancée, notre couverture détaillée de l’actualité des deux dernières années révèle que l’armée verte de récupératrices...

¿Quién está haciendo realmente más ecológicas las ciudades del futuro?

Junto con el inicio de la COP25, nuestro profundo análisis de dos años de cobertura periodística revela que el ejército ecológico de personas...

Technical Deep Dive: Improving Infrastructure, Services and Livelihoods in Low Income Urban Settlements

• December 2, 2019 - December 6, 2019
• Tokyo, Japan

WIEGO’s Marty Chen, Jenna Harvey and Sonia Dias brought expertise on urban informal livelihoods and presented case studies on inclusive...

Global Social Protection Week

• November 25, 2019 - November 28, 2019
• ILO Headquarters
  Geneva, Switzerland

WIEGO participated in Global Social Protection Week, a high-level conference and technical discussion to chart the way towards universal...

Interview: How South Africa Could Become a Model for Formalizing the Informal Economy

WIEGO’s Organization & Representation Programme Director, Jane Barrett, talks about the ILO’s Recommendation 204 on formalizing the...

The Rights of Domestic Workers: Chances and Challenges for International and National Advocacy Work and Networking

Ecumenical Center, Geneva, Switzerland On the occasion of the 99th Session of the International Labor Conference

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.

Revisiting Agency Work in Namibia and South Africa: Any Lessons from the Decent Work Agenda and the Flexicurity Approach?International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Abstract: Namibia has recently introduced policies regarding the regulation of agency work, and South Africa is in the process of doing the...

Hacia una alianza global de recicladores (Towards a Global Alliance of Wastepickers)

Nurturing a culture of compliance with domestic workers’ rights in South Africa