Asia & the Pacific

Social Protection Briefing Notes

WIEGO has produced a series of briefs to analyze the Social Protection Responses to COVID-19, drawing from WIEGO’s database of social...

Home-Based Workers in India: A Statistical Profile

This statistical snapshot of India’s home-based workers offers data on the size of this workforce, age, sex, type of industry and more. Data...

COVID-19, Cities & Urban Informal Workers: An International Perspective

Presentation delivered by Dr. Marty A. Chen, International Coordinator Emeritus and Senior Advisor, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing...

Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Labour and Employment in India: Impact, Strategies and Perspectives

• June 8, 2020 - June 9, 2020
• Online

Focal City Learning Meeting 2020: Different Cities, Common Goals

DELHI DIARY – April 2020by Avi Singh Majithia

Not just hunger but also safety: Relief for waste pickers during COVID-19

by Avi Singh Majithia  May 4, 2020

Ela R. Bhatt explains how to rebuild a society less susceptible to debt, disease and devastation

Ela R. Bhatt, long-time activist, founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union in India, and also a founder of...

Asia Floor Wage Alliance Statement on Garment Workers’ Demands – COVID-19

As the economic, human and labour rights impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic become global and pervasive, we are seeing garment workers in global...

Focal City Delhi: COVID-19 response

When India went into an abrupt lockdown on March 24, it triggered a high-profile humanitarian crisis as migrant workers scrambled to get...

To die from hunger or the virus: An all too real dilemma for the poor in India (and elsewhere)

The double tsunami of the pandemic and lockdown in India will continue to have devastating impacts on the health and livelihoods of the poor,...