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Mirai Chatterjee and panelists field questions from the audience.
This issue includes: Voices from Africa WISE’s pension scheme News from SETU Africa: Ethiopian Embassy team visited SEWA Happenings at Sewa: Sewa’s Health and Child Care Programmes
This is a newsletter from the Globalization and Labor Standards (GALS) Electronic Bibliographic Library at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles).
From this edition of the ILO's newsletter: "Since the adoption of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention (No.189), 2011, the ILO has committed itself to developing knowledge and policy tools to make decent work a reality for domestic workers. In a series of e-mails in the upcoming months, the INWORK...
This summary examines characteristics of home-based work including: definitions and statistics; contributions and economic value; driving forces and work conditions; policies and programmes; and organizing issues. español
A blog post by WIEGO's Waste Sector Specialist, Sonia Dias.
WIEGO's August 2014 Newsletter for Membership-Based Organizations of Informal Workers Read the newsletter in English . Leer el boletín en español . Lire cette lettre d'information en français .
Francie Lund from WIEGO presented "The Southern African model: The case of South Africa’s Old Age Pension and Child Support Grant" at the UNU-WIDER development conference in Hanoi. The conference "concentrated on the core 21st century development challenges in both low- and middle-income countries...
The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond to economic trends, urban policies and practices, value chain dynamics, and other economic and social forces. In Lahore, WIEGO partnered with HomeNet...
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.