Poverty / Inequality

Hierarchies of Earnings and Poverty

Diagrams reveal a hierarchy of earnings and poverty risk across various segments of the labour force. Average earnings are lower and the...

Links with Inequality

The inequalities between those at the base of the economic pyramid and those at the tip can be traced through nested layers of inequality:...

Links with Poverty: Data Sources

All of the data for the UNIFEM-WIEGO studies were from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The data sources and years for the five countries...

Policy Framework

Some years ago, the world embraced biodiversity. Today, the world needs to also embrace economic diversity — a hybrid economic model that...

Workers’ rights in informal economies

A growing movement is helping improve lives and livelihoods for the world’s informal workers, Sally Roever explains in this Open Democracy...

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

Home Truths: Wellbeing and Vulnerabilities of Child Domestic Workers

The Constitutional Parameters of New York State’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Living Conditions of Tea Plantation Workers

The strike by women workers in the tea plantations of Kerala brings to fore the miserable living conditions of the workers in this sector...

PR No. 15A – Text of the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers

The present document, which elaborates, describes and explains the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011, is the result of the General Conference...