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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...
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...
Coura Ndiaye – or “Mother Coura” as people call her out of respect for her age and the number of years she has worked as a waste picker – is an honorary leader among waste pickers in the Mbeubeuss dumpsite, located 30 kilometres away from Dakar. Since 2000, Coura has been a member, and then leader...
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...
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...
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...
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.