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Social Protection Responses Brief 7 – French

Social Protection Responses Brief 7 – English

Social Protection Responses Brief 7 – Spanish

Statement to Recognize Waste Collectors as Essential Workers

The purpose of this statement is to express the Waste Workers Occupational Safety and Health (WWOSH) Committee’s support for the recognition...

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...

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...

Cómo llegar al “sector intermedio olvidado”: Protección social para trabajadorxs en empleo informal durante la pandemia de COVID-19

Dado que la situación de lxs trabajadorxs en empleo formal se ve atenuada, hasta cierto punto, por la protección que reciben a través de...

Atteindre le « milieu délaissé » : Protection sociale pour les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel en temps de COVID-19

Les travailleuse·eur·s du formel, d’une part, ont été quelque peu touché·e·s par la protection offerte par leurs relations de travail officielles....

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...