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Revisiting CEDAW’s Recommendations: Has anything changed for migrant workers in Israel in the last two years?
From the paper’s introduction: “Two years ago, in early 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...
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Stitched Up: Poverty wages for garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey
A report released in June 2014 by Clean Clothes Campaign shows that garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey are paid poverty wages and...
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Research ReportsMicro-Determinants of Informal Employment in The Middle East and North Africa Region
Social Protection Discussion paper, No. 1201
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Black Money, Black Labor: Collection of Brokerage Fees from Migrant Caregivers in Israel
From the paper’s introdution: “Kav LaOved conducted a survey in March 2013, with data from 835 migrant workers who arrived in...
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Building Women Homebased Workers’ Organizations in Turkey
Abstract:This article introduces Turkey HomeNet, an organisation of homebased female workers in Turkey. Turkey HomeNet is a national umbrella...
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Subcontracted Work and Gender Relations: The Case of Pakistan
This chapter about subcontracted workers in Pakistan is part of the book that, as described on amazon.com, “studies the impact of...
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The conflict between street vendors and local authorities: The case of market traders in Ankara, Turkey
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Roadmap for Tunisian Leadership: Integrating the Informal Economy
The roadmap addresses the economic exclusion of informal workers in Tunisia and presents strategies for incorporating the informal sector...
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Visible Hands – Invisible Women: Garment Production in TurkeyFeminist Economics
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Turkey Seen Through the Prism of Occupational Diseases
It is hard to diagnose and recognise an occupational disease (OD) because the diagnosis must prove the occupational factors which caused...
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