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For an estimated 260 million home-based workers around the world, their home doubles as their workplace. Homes are also used as work or storage spaces for groups of workers who work mainly outside the home, including street vendors and waste pickers, as well as carpenters and masons. The homes-cum...
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...
Reshmaben is an organizer with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She learnt tailoring from her mother when she was 14. Now, at 29, she helps raise awareness among workers about the importance of vaccination and protection against the virus. SEWA also stepped in to provide relief...
Norma Palacios is one of the co-founders and leaders of SINACTRAHO, a domestic workers’ union in Mexico that seeks to raise awareness of their economic and labor situation, while empowering their members to demand and exercise their rights as workers. From the onset of the pandemic, Norma understood...
ภาษาไทย Renu is the leader of the Muubaan Nakila Service Cooperative, which is active in her housing estate in Bangkok. Along with other leaders, she supports vendors and their families by helping distribute food relief, facilitating access to medical services, negotiating with local government on...
In this global pandemic, WIEGO is focused on the potentially devastating consequences for the world’s two billion informal workers, who lack labour, social and health protections. We are striving to ensure that informal workers’ issues are addressed, providing information and advocacy tools and...
English Français Desde WIEGO, junto a nuestros socios, estamos escuchando con extrema atención a las personas trabajadoras en empleo informal a través de nuestro estudio llevado a cabo en 12 ciudades: La crisis de la COVID-19 y la economía informal. Sus voces nos están ayudando a desentrañar las...
Español Français Zarina is a home-based worker. She lives in Savda Ghevra, a resettlement colony on the outskirts of Delhi, where she is one of the many home-based workers in the community. She has worked as a tailor out of her home for decades, making gowns and coats for hospitals on order, as well...
Español Français Romilla Chetty—a third-generation trader in Durban’s Warwick Junction and the first woman in her family to run the business—is an advocate for the rights of market traders and street vendors. She sees her trading community as “one big family” and has served as the secretary for the...
Español Français Português I am Jennifer Thaís Santos Fernandes. I am 25 years old and I am a young black woman and a waste picker. I have worked at ASCITO, a waste picker association from the city of Itabirito—a town in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte in the south-east of Brazil—since I...
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.