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This resource reviews literature on the topic of women, work and child care provision with a focus on the following areas: to provide a review of the main conceptual issues which have underpinned child care as a policy issue; to collect the available empirical evidence which links women’s earnings...
This resource aims to identify key actors who might be influential in the field of child care. It aims, in particular, to explore their positions in respect of child care in relation to women in informal employment. The focus on women reflects the facts that women are, in general, more likely than...
In this issue: Dissemination workshop – Durban, South Africa Her Excellency, Dr Gennet Zewide, Ambassador of Ethiopia to India, in conversation
The new edition of Progress of the World 's Women 2015-16: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights was launched on April 27 at the Ford Foundation in New York and in 10 other cities. WIEGO prepared background papers that were used in the report and Joann Vanek served on the Report's Expert Advisory...
Trendy clothes are cheaper than ever. That sounds great for the people who buy them, but it's horrible for the people who make them.
The purpose of this law is to ensure food safety and the protection of public health.
The aim of this paper is to review the various policy options, approaches and measures that can be used to address informal entrepreneurship. To do this, it first reviews four possible policy options, namely taking no action, eradicating informal entrepreneurship, moving formal entrepreneurship into...
Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades. This brief considers informal cross-border couriers from Zimbabwe, who operate between Zimbabwe and South Africa. It considers the origins of their occupation, their...
The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a labour and women's rights organization that supports the efforts of workers in global supply chains to win improved wages and working conditions and a better quality of life.
WIEGO was invited by ActionAid to join its panel to provide oral evidence to the UK Parliament's Economic Development Strategy Framework of the Department for International Development (DFID). The resulting report contains recommendations to DFID and an undertaking that the committee should follow...
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.