The Americas

Workshop: New Public Service Standards for Waste Pickers

• May 14, 2015

Medellin, ColombiaWIEGO held a two-day workshop for waste picker organizations in Medellin and sourrounding municipalities. This workshop...

En temps de crise, les organisations de base réinventent la pratique démocratique

Aux quatre coins du monde, les normes démocratiques sont menacées et les conséquences à long terme s’annoncent graves. Les travailleuses...

In times of crisis, grassroots organizations re-imagine democratic practice

Democratic norms are under threat worldwide. Informal workers and other marginalized groups are witnessing the reversal of hard-fought wins...

Global Movement of Home-Based Workers

History of this Movement Home-based workers approached SEWA. We realized that many ’housewives’ are workers, but are invisible – even for...

Victories for Domestic Workers in Mexico City

Domestic workers in Mexico achieved significant victories and gained profile worldwide in December 2018.

Street Vendors in Lima, Peru

Every formalization process benefits those who have money. The ones who are left behind are the ones who cannot pay. – Gloria Solórzano,...

Gender and Waste

A collaborative project involving waste pickers in Latin America has shed light on the multiple levels of discrimination that women waste...

Voice & Leadership

Strengthening the Voice and Leadership of Informal Women Workers Around Social Policy Issues This project built a sustained link between...

Peru

OHS Project in PeruIn Lima, the OHS project’s team – Anita Luján and her colleagues from the Consorcio por la Salud, Ambiente y Desarollo...

Brazil – OHS Project

  WIEGO’s OHS project supported the ongoing work of the Worker’s Health Unit (PISAT) at the Institute for Collective Health at the Federal...