Asia & the Pacific

VIDEO: Sunday Market Ahmedabad

This video, filmed by Rameshwar Bhatt, shows a busy Sunday Market in Ahmedabad.

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006

This document contains an Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India...

Informal Workers Narrative Discussion

HBWWF rally on South Asian HBWs Day, KHI

Home workers are playing an important role in the domestic economy, social development is impossible without recognizing their rights. On...

Session 1 – Labor Market Reform and Employment Restructuring in China

materials from China-India Labour Market Research Design Workshop, 2007

Measuring Informal Employment in Urban China

Beijing workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”

Fact Sheet: Women Organizing for Fair Trade in India

Details of the MDG3-funded Fair Trade project in India

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers Newsletter, August 2012

This newsletter shares details of wastepicker meetings and reflections on these meetings.

SEWA Newsletter No. 44

Contents:       Women’s menstrual cycles are a “plague” : Findings from a SEWA study     SEWA’s agricultural campaigns    ...

Legal Rights for Thailand’s Homeworkers

HomeNet Thailand, with support from WIEGO and other partners, campaigned for more than a decade to win legislative protection for homeworkers....