India

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

Conmemorando los 20 años de la histórica ley internacional sobre las trabajadoras y los trabajadores a domicilio

Recordando una tarjeta postal de Ginebra y reafirmando una campaña Shalini Sinha, Sector Specialist, Home-Based Workers

Five Women Informal Workers Share Their Challenges in Accessing Health Services

The poor face many challenges in accessing health services.

Commemorating 20 Years of Landmark Convention for Homeworkers

Remembering a Postcard from Geneva and Reaffirming a Campaign Shalini Sinha, Sector Specialist, Home-Based Workers

How home-based workers in Ahmedabad formed a union to improve their lives

By Carlin Carr In the first of a series of photo essays from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing (WIEGO) Carlin Carr...

Towards a Transformative Agenda for Women’s Economic Empowerment

By Jenna Harvey There is a growing global consensus that advancing women’s economic empowerment (WEE) is critical both as a matter of human...

Five Blogs that Highlight Key Achievements for Informal Workers in 2017

The global movement of informal workers – led by worker organizations in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America – made major strides this...

In India, Pune’s Poorest Operate One of the World’s Most Cost-effective Waste Management Models

A Q&A with Lakshmi Narayan As cities across the globe struggle to find efficient, cost-effective ways to manage waste, the women waste...

Child care for women informal workers proves essential to earning power

By Rachel Moussié Women’s economic empowerment is a central feature of development debates today. A key focus is the economic and social...

“Our role has been to make the informal economy visible and give it validity”

Renana Jhabvala discusses the UN Secretary-General’s first-ever High-level Panel (UN HLP) for Women’s Economic EmpowermentRenana Jhabvala...