Africa

SETU Africa Newsletter – Jan 2016

In this issue: – Workshop with the African High Commissioners and senior representatives of some African embassies in New Delhi –...

Ghanzi District Council Hawking and Street Vending by-laws

These by-laws regulate hawking and street vending in the Ghanzi Distrcit of Botswana.

WIEGO Statement on Situation in Harare, Zimbabwe

Letter from WIEGO to President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe addressing the current situation in Harare City Central Business District where...

Informal Economy Platform of Issues

African regional workshop held in Lusaka from 17 – 19 October 2001, convened by the Workers Education Association of Zambia

Organising Street Vendors in Liberia: Workshop Report

Report of the Launch of the African Domestic Workers Network

Roma, galardonada y candidata a los Óscar y algunas lecturas imprescindibles sobre el trabajo del hogar

El próximo mes, sabremos si el conmovedor retrato del director Alfonso Cuarón Orozco sobre una trabajadora del hogar en México en los años...

The Truth about How Dakar’s Clothes Get Cleaned

By Carlin Carr & Gabriella TanvéIn Dakar, Senegal, the city’s dirty laundry doesn’t get cleaned on a spin cycle. Each day, women across...

How a pyramid sketch redefined the informal economy — and the new data that is putting that 20-year-old idea to the test

  By Mike Rogan

From Lima to Bangkok, WIEGO Lays Out Strategy to Improve Conditions of Informal Workers in Six Target Cities

By Jenna Harvey It is morning rush hour in Bangkok and moto-taxi drivers ferry hurried commuters through stalled traffic. In Mexico City,...