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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.
Since 2016, WIEGO’s Law Programme and its Organization and Representation Programme has partnered with the Malawi Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS) to promote the implementation of R204 (the ILO Recommendation concerning the transition from the informal to the formal economy) in Malawi.
English Español Français Organizações que representam mais de 2,1 milhões de trabalhadores informais de todo o mundo conclamam os governos para que acelerem os investimentos em proteções trabalhistas como um componente central dos planos de recuperação econômica. Nos lockdowns da COVID-19, há um ano...
English Français Português Las organizaciones que representan a más de 2,1 millones de personas trabajadoras en empleo informal de todo el mundo piden a los gobiernos que aceleren las inversiones en protección laboral como componente central de los planes de recuperación económica. Debido a las...
English Español Português Les organisations porte-parole des travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel – chiffrés à plus de 2,1 millions dans le monde entier – appellent aux gouvernements à accélérer les investissements dans la protection des travailleuse·eur·s comme volet central des plans de relance...
Rukaya Bawule is 26 years old and a leader of the kayayei, or headporters, in Agbogbloshie market in Accra, Ghana. Through her organization, the Old Fadama Kayayei Association, Rukaya supports the kayayei during the pandemic by sharing information about the need for PPE and vaccination, and by...
For International Women's Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic for a bottom-up approach to economic recovery. By building a crisis response based around mutual care, solidarity and advocacy strategies, they show us that policy...
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.