Asia & the Pacific

Coping with COVID-19: SEWA’s Domestic Workers on the Pandemic and Beyond

Two domestic workers from India share their experiences about the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on their work and lives, the difficulties...

Cómo hacerle frente a la COVID-19: las trabajadoras del hogar de SEWA durante la pandemia y más allá

Dos trabajadoras domésticas de India comparten su experiencia sobre el impacto de la COVID-19 y el aislamiento obligatorio en su trabajo...

Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: A Statistical Profile

In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million non-agricultural and 7.4 million agricultural home-based workers, according to the 2016/17 Labour...

Social Protection Responses Brief 7 – French

Social Protection Responses Brief 7 – English

Social Protection Responses Brief 7 – Spanish

Microinsurance needed for low-income families in India, says new report

The insurance authority of India has made public a report that calls for the urgent implementation of changes that would expand microinsurance...

Informal Workers in India: A Statistical Profile

Employment in India is overwhelmingly informal: 90 per cent of all workers are employed under informal arrangements nationally; in urban...

Women who work from home ‘shrouded in a cloak of invisibility’

“When we think of work-from-home, let us enable and promote better living and working conditions not just for the elite, but also for the...

The Impact of COVID-19 Laws on Informal Workers: A Review of 51 Countries