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  • Advocacy Materials

    IDWN Solidarity Note to Domestic Workers and Cleaners in Netherlands

    “The International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN) is watching with great interest the events in the Netherlands. For the second year,...

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  • Legal Instruments

    The Pedlars Act, 1871.

    This Act serves for granting certificates/licenses to pedlars that allow them to conduct their business.

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Video Depicting Waste Pickers in Paris in 1929

    A video depicting waste pickers in Paris in 1929.   Link: www.mheu.org/fr/chiffonniers/zone.aspx

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  • Legal Instruments

    An Act Governing Domestic Help and Domestic Employees

    This Act makes provisions that shall apply to the employment relationship of employees who provide domestic services for their employer or...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Samuel Le Coeur from AMELIOR Association in France

    From 28-30 November 2016, informal recyclers from Brazil hosted the international event, Expocatadores, in which they invited Latin American...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Industrial Relations Act Code of Practice for Protecting Persons Employed in Other People’s Homes, 1990

    This document sets out a code of practise for the purposes of the Industrial Relations Act 1990 for protecting persons employed in other...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Garment Makers

    Booklet entitled Self-Employed Women: A Profile of SEWA’s Membership. The booklet features a write-up on the garment workers among SEWA’s...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Ireland Street Trading Act

    This Act regulates street trading in the Dublin and other county boroughs and urban districts that opt to adopt it.

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Decent Work for Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains Platform of Demands

    Advocacy MaterialThousands of homeworkers contributed, directly or indirectly, to the demands contained in this Platform.

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    The Toughest Place to be a Binman – Jakarta

    London bin man Wilbur Ramirez struggles on his first day working in Jakarta, in the Toughest Place to be a Binman. The program was broadcast...

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