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L’écart continue de se creuser entre riches et pauvres. Au cours des décennies ayant précédé la Grande récession, la croissance économique bénéficiait déjà de manière disproportionnée aux catégories à haut revenu, tandis que les ménages à bas revenu étaient laissés pour compte. Depuis la crise, les...
By Victoria Okoye, Urban Advocacy Specialist, WIEGO In Accra, there exists a perpetual tension between the city’s street vendors and hawkers who hustle for a living on the city’s sidewalks and pavement, and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), which seeks to limit and clear their activities from...
Por Victoria Okoye En Accra, existe una tensión permanente entre los comerciantes ambulantes de la ciudad que luchan por ganarse la vida en las aceras y calzadas de la ciudad, y la Asamblea Metropolitana de Accra (AMA, por sus siglas en inglés), que busca limitar y reducir sus actividades de estos...
By Ela Bhatt Gandhian Activist Founder, Self-Employed Women’s Association Founding Chair, WIEGO Network The news that a trade union and its partners in the National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia had been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize was heartening for all of us who believe in peaceful political...
Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities. Based on findings from a research-action project with women waste pickers, this paper maps out the objectives of the participatory project and...
November to December 2014 Newsletter of the Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE). For more information about OSHE, please visit http://www.oshebd.org .
In 2013, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) produced toolkit on Learning and Working in the Informal Economy with a focus on skills development in the and for the informal economy. Marty Chen, WIEGO International Coordinator, wrote a piece for the Toolkit on which focused on the...
Este video de 20 minutos de WIEGO y organizaciones socio Asiye Etafulani (AeT) en Sudáfrica, HomeNet Thailand en Tailandia, y la Asociación de Mujeres Autoempleadas (SEWA) en la India, narra las historias de los trabajadores en la economía informal y las dificultades que enfrentan para tener acceso...
Informal trading is a prevalent reality in African cities, still marked by high degree of poverty, unemployment and inequality, and affected by global economic fluctuations. Informal trading constitutes a safety net in times of economic hardship, and a major way for marginalised groups to enter the...
Le commerce informel est une réalité incontournable dans les villes africaines, marquées par un niveau élevé de pauvreté, de chômage et d’inégalités et, assujetti aux fluctuations de l’économie mondiale. Le commerce informel constitue une soupape essentielle, et un point d’entrée sur le marché du...
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.