The Americas

No hacer daño: Por qué el acoso a las personas trabajadoras en empleo informal perjudica la salud pública y la recuperación económica

Las vendedoras y vendedores ambulantes de la Ciudad de México están brindándoles alimentos accesibles, al aire libre, a las poblaciones con...

Do no harm: Why harassment of informal workers hurts public health and economic recovery

Street vendors in Mexico City are providing affordable food, in open-air settings, to food-insecure populations. Waste pickers in Accra provide...

WIEGO lamenta la pérdida de Guillermo Pérez

La comunidad que anida para el trabajo de WIEGO en Perú – que incluye miembros del equipo de WIEGO, socios, dirigentes y miembros de...

WIEGO Mourns the Loss of Guillermo Pérez

The community in which WIEGO’s work in Peru is rooted, which includes WIEGO team members, partners, leaders and members of workers’...

The Impact of COVID-19 Laws on Informal Workers: A Review of 51 Countries

How are Peru’s street vendors facing COVID-19?

With a budget equivalent to 12% of its GDP, Peru put together the largest COVID-19 pandemic response package in Latin America. Its main intention...

Impactos da pandemia de COVID-19 sobre reciclagem inclusiva no Brasil

No Place for Street Vendors: Global Capital and Local Exclusion in an East Asian Immigrant Enclave of New York City

The survey on which this Resource Document is based shows that, for many people in the New York City neighbourhood of Flushing, a good neighbourhood...

Informal Workers in Mexico: A Statistical Snapshot

This Brief provides statistics on the informal economy and categories of informal workers in Mexico. The data in this brief are based on...

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil

Totally reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important if we take into consideration that waste pickers are an essential part...