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Ce édition du bulletin WIEGO inclut: - La délégation revient de la CIT 2015 avec une norme du travail historique pour les travailleurs et travailleuses informels - Actualités Sectorielles - Les Programmes Fondamentaux de WIEGO - Le site internet de WIEGO fait peau neuve et le site espagnol est lancé...
More than 100 home-based workers and supporters from around the globe gathered in New Delhi, India, in January 2015 in a landmark solidarity-building event. Over the two-day conference, organized by HomeNet South (HNSA) Asia and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), home...
Video . Lourdes Gula of HomeNet Philippines (PATAMABA) - a member of the WIEGO network - addresses the tripartite Committee on the Transition from the Informal Economy at the International Labour Conference (ILC). Learn more about: the ILC event PATAMABA
Video. Lourdes Gula of HomeNet Philippines (PATAMABA) discusses the challenges faced by home-based workers around the world, what informality means for this group of workers and why the Recommendation on Transitioning from the Informal to the Formal Economy is important. The presentation was given...
A Q&A with Elaine Jones during World Fair Trade Week Elaine Jones, Director of WIEGO’s Global Trade Programme, joins us this week from the World Fair Trade Week being held in Milan, Italy. The weeklong event features the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) Conference, a Fair Trade International...
The Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh in 2013 revealed the deathly factory conditions of garment workers, many of whom were stitching for the world's biggest brands. While the disaster has raised awareness -- and even moved forward promising steps to improve working conditions -- there is yet a...
Los mitos abundan en el campo de las estadísticas de la economía informal y van desde nociones de “no hay estadística alguna”, hasta “las estadísticas no nos dicen nada”. Aquí hay respuestas para los mitos más comunes. Mito #1: No hay estadísticas sobre la economía informal Las estadísticas sobre la...
Abstract: This dissertation provides new individual-level evidence of the labour market decisions made by an important but little studied segment of the labour market: industrial homeworkers. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods with data from unconventional sources, it tells us about...
This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers, street vendors, waste pickers and domestic workers. The methods discussed can be used in designing questions in surveys to collect data on these workers. It...
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the Fourth UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995. To mark this historic anniversary, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation recently released their “ No Ceilings: The Full Participation Report ,”...
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.