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Resource DocumentsPune Waste Pickers’ Innovative Efforts to Fund the Extension of Decent Work and Social Protection
Taking inspiration from India’s long experience with welfare boards, which provide social protection for self-employed workers and are generally...
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Resource DocumentsWaste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities
Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and...
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Resource DocumentsDomestic Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact, Recovery and Resilience in Six Cities
Key Findings Domestic workers’ ability to work and earn an income were negatively impacted throughout the pandemic and particularly at the...
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Fact Sheets/InfographicsWorkers in Informal Employment in Brazil: A Statistical Snapshot of 2019 and 2020
This snapshot examines data on informal employment in Brazil nationally in 2019 and 2020, showing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with...
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PostBuilding Collective Power January 31, 2023The Journey Towards Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan
Home-based workers in Pakistan’s Sindh province achieved a historic victory with legislation that gives approximately 5 million home-based...
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Resource DocumentsHome-Based Workers’ Access to Social Protection: Lessons Learned from the IDPoor Programme in Cambodia
This joint WIEGO and HomeNet Cambodia study adds to the limited research on home-based workers and their access to social-protection programmes...
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Organizing BriefsThe Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan
This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...
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Policy/Position DocumentsEconomic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City
Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City WIEGO organized a dialogue on economic recovery for the informal...
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NewsNovember 08, 2022Mirai Chatterjee pays tribute to Ela Ramesh Bhatt
Many an epithet has been used to celebrate her—the gentle revolutionary, the Mahatma of “shramjeevi” (working) women, and more. For us, her SEWA (Self-Employed...
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NewsNovember 08, 2022Renana Jhabvala pays tribute to Ela Ramesh Bhatt
Ela Ramesh Bhatt has been called a gentle revolutionary. Both her ideas and her actions were revolutionary. She gave the world the path with...
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