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This issue of the newsletter includes links to an infographic and more information about ensuring the right to rest for domestic workers. Other issues of the ILO INWORK newsletter are also available in English, French and Spanish.
This resource focuses on a collaborative process for market traders and local government officials to develop a disaster response plan.
The strike by women workers in the tea plantations of Kerala brings to fore the miserable living conditions of the workers in this sector across the country. With more than a million permanent workers, the tea plantation industry is the largest in the formal private sector in the country. Yet wages...
By Victoria Okoye, Urban Advocacy Specialist, WIEGO In Accra, there exists a perpetual tension between the city’s street vendors and hawkers who hustle for a living on the city’s sidewalks and pavement, and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), which seeks to limit and clear their activities from...
By Ela Bhatt Gandhian Activist Founder, Self-Employed Women’s Association Founding Chair, WIEGO Network The news that a trade union and its partners in the National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia had been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize was heartening for all of us who believe in peaceful political...
Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities. Based on findings from a research-action project with women waste pickers, this paper maps out the objectives of the participatory project and...
In 2013, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) produced toolkit on Learning and Working in the Informal Economy with a focus on skills development in the and for the informal economy. Marty Chen, WIEGO International Coordinator, wrote a piece for the Toolkit on which focused on the...
Este video de 20 minutos de WIEGO y organizaciones socio Asiye Etafulani (AeT) en Sudáfrica, HomeNet Thailand en Tailandia, y la Asociación de Mujeres Autoempleadas (SEWA) en la India, narra las historias de los trabajadores en la economía informal y las dificultades que enfrentan para tener acceso...
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.