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Audiovisual Materials
RTE Maharashtra – 25% Reservation for Admission in Private Schools
This is a story of the struggle of some parents who wanted to get their children admitted to private schools through the 25% reservation...
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VIDEO: SEWA’s Pioneering Role in Informal Worker Rights
Martha Chen, International Coordinator of the WIEGO network, speaks about the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), “the...
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Legal Instruments
ILO Fact Sheet on Domestic Workers’ Rights in Thailand
Fact sheet on domestic workers rights’ under Ministerial Regulation No. 14.
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Legal Instruments
The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014
An Act to protect the rights of urban street vendors and to regulate street vending activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental...
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Stories/Case Studies
Empowering Home-based Workers in India
Led by SEWA Bharat as part of its mandate to develop new SEWAs, SEWA Delhi started its efforts in 1999 by organizing women vegetable vendors...
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Audiovisual Materials
VIDEO: WIEGO Network Member PATAMABA at the International Labour Conference (ILC) 2015
Video. Lourdes Gula of HomeNet Philippines (PATAMABA) – a member of the WIEGO network – addresses the tripartite Committee on...
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Legal Instruments
Street Vendors’ Laws and Legal Issues in India
Street vending is not only a source of self-employment to the poor in cities and towns but also a means to provide ‘affordable’ as well as...
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Audiovisual Materials
VIDEO: Lakshmi Narayan – Livelihoods and the New Urban Agenda
Lakshmi Narayan, co-founder of SWaCH Waste Picker Cooperative in Pune, India, speaks after a panel discussionon “Informal Livelihoods...
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Legal Instruments
Thailand ILO Fact Sheet on Domestic Workers’ Rights in Thailand
Fact sheet on domestic workers rights’ under Ministerial Regulation No. 14.
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Legal Instruments
The Vending of Cooked Food Ordinance, 1990
This ordinance covers the operation of all vendors of cooked foods, whether by peddling around and/or, stationary in a counter/table at a...
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