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‘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...

Les leçons de la crise d’Ebola

Lorsque la COVID-19 a frappé, Vandi Lansana savait ce qu’il devait faire. En tant que vice-président national du syndicat des vendeuse·eur·s...

Lecciones de la crisis del Ébola

Cuando comenzó la pandemia de la COVID-19, Vandi Lansana sabía qué era lo que debía hacer. Como vicepresidente del Sindicato de Comerciantes...

Global Supply Chains in Times of COVID-19 – Global Labour University MOOC

• September 25, 2020
• Online

In August 2020, The Global Labour University launched a free self-paced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Global Supply Chains in Times...

Turning the COVID-19 Crisis into an Opportunity: What’s Next for Social Protection?

• October 6, 2020 - October 8, 2020
• Online

The October 6-8 global e-conference “Turning the COVID-19 Crisis into an Opportunity: What’s Next for Social Protection?”...

We need to listen to the workers: WIEGO partners conduct COVID-19 Global Impact Study

There are no economic indicators so important or revealing as the words of workers. Today, the voices of informal economy workers, who constitute...