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“When we think of work-from-home, let us enable and promote better living and working conditions not just for the elite, but also for the large number of vulnerable and often invisible home-based workers,” say WIEGO’s Shalini Sinha and Malavika Narayan in this article published in Scroll , a...
“It's very hard to see what the other end of this crisis is going to look like at the grassroots level, at the base of the economic pyramid,” WIEGO’s international coordinator Sally Roever said in an article published by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “Street vendors can go in the street, but...
WIEGO Senior Advisor Marty Chen recently participated in an Institute of Development Studies webinar, " The COVID-19 crisis facing informal workers – what can be done? " and said the pandemic provides an opportunity for a major shift in our thinking about structural injustices in economies. At the...
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WIEGO, Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) and HomeNet South East Asia (HNSEA)
demand that brands extend a one-time Supply-chain Relief Contribution (SRC) to all garment workers in their supply chains during the COVID-19 crisis. In a July 20 statement , the organizations...
In an immediate response to COVID-19, WIEGO conducted a rapid assessment to understand how the pandemic and the related public health measures were affecting informal workers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In photographs and text, this e-book shows the global picture WIEGO found, the health...
En una respuesta inmediata a la COVID-19, WIEGO llevó a cabo una evaluación rápida para entender cómo están afectando la pandemia y las medidas de salud pública a las personas trabajadoras en empleo informal en África, Asia y América Latina. Este e-book muestra, en sus fotografías y su redacción, el...
This statistical snapshot of India's home-based workers offers data on the size of this workforce, age, sex, type of industry and more. Data presented in this brief are from the 2017-18 Periodic Labour Force Survey and the 2011-12 and 2004-2005 Surveys of Employment and Unemployment. All are...
Text of the petition We call on the European Union to create a financial instrument to support all informal workers with the introduction of the Solidarity Fund between official and informal workers, an urgent measure to provide quick and bureaucratic relief to all citizens in Europe whose economic...
Government decrees to don a mask and “be economical” are not much help for the large number of working poor people in Uganda who have lost their incomes and depleted any savings since the COVID-19 crisis began. A growing movement of home-based worker organizations have sent a strong, unified message...
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.