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On 20 June 1996, homeworkers around the world scored a big win when the International Labour Conference (ILC) adopted the Home Work Convention. This Convention (C177) aims to promote and protect the rights of those who work at home creating products for an employer. But 20 years on, too few...
Waste pickers are increasingly motivated to organize and fight for recognition and a place within formal waste management systems. They are forming cooperatives, associations, unions, movements and networks. The extent and depth to which waste pickers have organized varies across countries and...
WIEGO works with four main occupational groups of informal workers: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers. Workers in each occupational group face unique legal challenges. This page outlines some progressive legal developments that respond to the needs of these...
EDPs allow researchers, practitioners and officials to experience firsthand the challenges that workers in informal employment face. The EDPs focused on law aim to foster an understanding of how laws and regulatory frameworks shape and constrain informal workers’ livelihoods, and how the law might...
Millions of workers across the globe cannot access social benefits such as retirement funds, maternity benefits, health services, occupational health and safety, and child care. In the industrialized North, many governments and employers have been withdrawing from welfare provision, pushing...
December 12 is Universal Health Coverage Day. But what does UHC mean for the majority of the world's workers who are informally employed — and how can policymakers ensure UHC reaches them?
Occupational Health & Safety in the Informal Economy WIEGO undertook a research project focused on occupational health and safety (OHS) for informal workers from 2009-14. Coordinated through WIEGO’s Social Protection Programme , the OHS project operated in Brazil, Ghana, India, Peru and Tanzania. A...
Occupational Health and Safety for Informal Workers I ssue 8: November 2013 English: pdf Español: pdf Français: pdf Português: pdf Issue 7: June 2013 English: pdf Español: pdf Français: pdf Português: pdf Issue 6: October 2012 English: pdf Español: pdf Français: pdf Português: pdf Issue 5: June 2012...
Conference & Meeting Presentations from the OHS Project July 2014 WIEGO and its partners from SEWA, HomeNet Thailand and the Federal University of Bahia attended the Institute of Medicine’s workshop on “Approaches to UHC & OHS for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries.” The Institute is one...
WIEGO’s OHS project supported the ongoing work of the Worker’s Health Unit (PISAT) at the Institute for Collective Health at the Federal University of Bahia, which is headed by Professor Vilma Santana. Together with WIEGO, the Institute: conducted research on OHS in three informal occupational...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.