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Informal workers organizations and trade unions unite to call for quality public child care services – READ FULL STATEMENT Campaign pamphlets, posters and stickers in seven languages below! Having a young child to look after reduces a woman’s working hours and lowers her earnings at a time in her...
Download a printable PDF of the statement | in French | in Spanish The absence of quality and gender responsive public care services, including child care, is an obstacle to decent livelihoods for women workers around the world. The costs and time of caring for children continue to be borne mainly...
Child care workers provide a necessary and valuable service that benefits individual families and the community and state. But care workers—almost always women—are often parents themselves. For these women, the rigours of their paid care work can conflict with their care responsibilities at home.
Most women informal workers face triple barriers to economic empowerment: as women, due to gender norms and relationships; as workers, due to their often informal status; and as members of disadvantaged communities, who often live in underserved slum and squatter settlements. Bias and Barriers While...
This year long initiative (March 2016-17) brought together leaders from civil society and the private and public sectors to define an actionable agenda for advancing gender equality and improving economic outcomes for women in the context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). Research...
This multi-country project helped workers build and strengthen networks nationally and internationally. By networking globally, working poor women from different occupational groups mobilized and made their voices heard. With funding from the Dutch government, the project ran from 2009-11 but the...
Women Organizing for Fair Trade Trading Our Way Up - The story of a women's economic empowerment project in fair trade An action research project examined the experiences of women producers in collective enterprises in seven countries between 2009–2011. The study highlighted the economic and social...
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Women's Economic Empowerment - Home-Based Workers Organized Strength for Home-Based Workers was a research and advocacy collaboration between the WIEGO Network and HomeNet Thailand. Launched in 2008, the project helped develop an Informal Sector Network in Thailand and broadened support for informal...
Domestic Workers' Leadership for Empowerment Economic and Employment Rights: Advancing Domestic Workers' Leadership Building on Success Under the first Women’s Economic Empowerment project (2009-12), WIEGO supported the formation of the International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN). The IDWN led an...
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.