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A Q&A with Taylor Cass Talbott It’s hard to miss the shocking images of heaping plastic floating in the middle of the world’s oceans on the covers of magazines and on the evening news. The photos and reports have raised alarm bells with both citizens and policymakers alike. The ocean plastic waste...
A Q&A with Lakshmi Narayan As cities across the globe struggle to find efficient, cost-effective ways to manage waste, the women waste pickers of Pune, India, have launched a pioneering way forward. Waste pickers are among the poorest and most marginalized residents in India’s cities. To improve...
This brief offers details of the urban informal workers in South Africa's metros, with a further focus on three cities.
Launch of "Supporting Informal Workers in Public Space: A Toolkit for Local Authorities" Informal workers - such as street vendors and waste pickers - who work in public spaces play a central role in urban economic and social life in cities around the world. But, in today’s global economy, local...
The addition of a new category “dependent contractor” in the status in employment classification of labour statistics should lead to better data and thus better national policies to benefit homeworkers: that is, sub-contracted home-based workers who are neither fully independent self-employed nor...
L’ajout d’une nouvelle catégorie « non-salarié dépendant » dans la Classification internationale des statuts d’emploi (CISE-18), en termes de statistiques du travail, devrait conduire à de meilleures données et donc à de meilleures politiques nationales en faveur des travailleurs à domicile, c’est-à...
La inclusión de la nueva categoría “contratista dependiente” en la clasificación de la situación en la ocupación dentro de las estadísticas del trabajo debería aportar mejores datos, y por ende conducir a mejores políticas nacionales que beneficien a las personas trabajadoras a domicilio...
El próximo mes, sabremos si el conmovedor retrato del director Alfonso Cuarón Orozco sobre una trabajadora del hogar en México en los años 70, recibirá un Óscar de la Academia. Habiendo sido recientemente galardonada como “Mejor película” en los premios de la crítica , las expectativas son altas. La...
WIEGO’s Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP) on Law and Informality brought global experts to Ahmedabad, India, to stay two nights in the homes of Self-Employed Women´s Association (SEWA) members. Experts followed workers in their daily schedules — from morning religious rituals to long days on dump...
Geneva, Switzerland "Women take on the larger share of care responsibilities and lack adequate maternity coverage. This highlights the importance of both Social Protection and social assistance targeted at women."- Rachel Moussié, Deputy-Director Social Protection, WIEGO Governments, multilateral...
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.