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These basic facts are at the core of WIEGO's work around social protection. Informal is normal. Informal employment accounts for the majority (61%) of employment worldwide (as high as 89 per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa and 88 per cent in southern Asia). Social protection is a right for all workers...
June 2012 Informal Workers and Allies Raised their Voices in Rio WIEGO and its allies participated in “RIO+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development” – and in the concurrent People’s Summit. In both arenas, we were striving to ensure the voices of informal workers were heard as world...
Workers' Lives is a series that profiles individual workers, putting a face to the realities of informal employment in different countries and contexts. These articles illuminate both working conditions and living environments, and how individual workers experience, first-hand, the impact of...
Membership-Based Organizations - The Heart of the Law & Informality Project In 2006 WIEGO instituted a global project on Law and the Informal Economy with a pro-poor and pro-women perspective. Pilot programmes ran in India and Columbia. In partnership with membership-based organizations worldwide...
Impact: Marginalized Workers Gain Healthcare Access A Health Policy Dialogue, facilitated by WIEGO in Accra in 2012, resulted in over 1,000 kayayei (head porters in Ghana) gain access to health care services through the Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Kayayeis are young women...
It's has been more than two decades since the adoption of ILO's Home Work Convention (C177) of 1996, but only 10 countries have ratified it. C177 aims to promote and protect the rights of those who work at home, producing goods for local and/or global value chains. Sub-contracted by firms or or...
Boletín informativo sobre el Programa de Derecho de WIEGO Programa de Derecho de WIEGO El Derecho es una herramienta fundamental para mejorar las vidas y medios de sustento de las personas. Sin embargo, los marcos legislativos están diseñados para la economía formal. Muy a menudo, las leyes ni...
July 2019 English | en Español | en Français Subscribe to our Newsletters January 2019 English | en Español | en Français Also check out the MBO Newsletter for informal workers and their organizations and the Law & Informality newsletter Previous issues of the WIEGO Newsletter May 2018 English...
Boletín informativo del Marzo 2019 Proyecto de justicia administrativa En todo el mundo, la gente en situación de pobreza que depende del espacio y recursos públicos para ganar sus medios de sustento se enfrentan a una amplia serie de desafíos. Un gran número se dedica a la venta ambulante, y...
Boletín informativo del Programa de Derecho Suscríbete a los boletines de WIEGO ¡Traer a casa las victorias internacionales y hacerlas realidad! "Durante los últimos cinco años hemos trabajado arduamente para influir en los acuerdos y procesos internacionales: los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible...
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.