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Promotional materials from WIEGO’s Child Care Campaign, launched in 2017 by the Social Protection Programme. Learn more about the Child Care Campaign and access additional promotional materials in English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai and Zulu.
More than three million women are forced into servitude as domestic workers every year, often lured to other countries in the Persian Gulf or Middle East under false pretenses. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on ways some advocates are working to protect workers, as well as women in...
What does buyer power look like in a global supply chain? Mark Anner, the director of the Center for Global Workers' Rights at Penn State University, explains to Beyond Trafficking and Slavery.
This blog, written by Ghada Abdel Tawab, highlights the efforts of WIEGO and the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) to challenge the dominant narrative on informal work and suggest alternative approaches to formalizing and protecting informal workers. From the blog: "Worldwide, millions of...
This newsletter includes links to reports, videos and other information about IDWF . This issue inlcudes IDWF's statement on International Domestic Workers Day. Disponible en español Disponible en français Other issues of IDWF Newsletter are available.
Ce bulletin comprend des liens vers des rapports, des vidéos et d'autres informations sur le FITH. Available in English Disponible en español Autres éditions du bulletin FITH sont disponibles.
Este boletín incluye enlaces a los informes, videos y otra información sobre la FITH. Available in English Disponible en français Otras ediciones de FITH Boletín están disponibles.
Waste picker news from around the world in GAIA's June 2017 newsletter. Find additional information about GAIA here .
Based on this survey, the brief reviews trends in street vending and market trade in Lima and in urban Peru between 2004 and 2015. It also provides analysis of the comparative working conditions of street vendors and market traders which in turn sheds light on whether market trade provides a better...
Half the world’s population live in cities, and urban informal workers make important economic, social, and environmental contributions to city life. Rhonda Douglas from WIEGO argues that the New Urban Agenda must include all urban stakeholders, including the working poor, to ensure it doesn’t leave...
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.