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This is a 5-page executive summary of a 59-page research guide (in Portuguese), Gestão da coleta seletiva e de organizações de catadores: indicadores e índices de sustentabilidade (Selective Waste Management and Waste Pickers’ Organizations: Indicators and Sustainability Indices). The guide...
Abstract: This is an interview with Edgardo Garcia, Secretary General of the Association of Farm Workers in Nicaragua and Oscar Berríos from the Nicaraguan National Engineering University. The interview was conducted in Nicaragua in October 2013. Garcia and Berríos address the importance of...
Suntaree Saeng-Ging of HomeNet Thailand speaks during worker's group meeting at the ILC 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. Learn more about this event .
At the International Labour Conference 2016, Prabha Pokhrel of HomeNet South Asia and Home-Based Worker Concern Society Nepal spoke on behalf of the WIEGO delegation to highlight the conditions of homeworkers, the importance of their visibility in official statistics and that they deserve...
This document (in Spanish), developed by informal workers' organizations from Peru, presents a set of recommendations in three main areas: governance and social dialogue, social protection, and financial and productivity support. The purpose was to engage with political parties that were contending...
"At an extraordinary meeting of the 18th and 19th of June 2016, we, members of the Association of Home-Based Workers and HomeNet Eastern Europe have discussed our concerns, given that this year marks the 20th anniversary of ILO’s Convention 177 and we note the following..."
The Los Angeles Street Vendor Campaign (LASVC) is the initiative to legalize street vending on Los Angeles' city sidewalks. The organizing efforts by the LASVC were discussed at a panel discussion at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona on May 19, 2016.
Advocacy Material Thousands of homeworkers contributed, directly or indirectly, to the demands contained in this Platform. The Platform draws on information gathered from home-based workers over many years, including the Delhi Declaration, adopted by over 100 delegates from 24 countries at the...
Miles de trabajadores a domicilio subcontratados han contribuido, directa o indirectamente, a elaborar las demandas de esta Plataforma. Esta se basa en información recogida, a lo largo de muchos años, de los trabajadores a domicilio, incluyendo la Declaración de Delhi, adoptada por más de 100...
Advocacy Materials C177 and homeworkers
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.