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November 10, 2014, Yogyakarta -- Leaders in the informal economy from around the globe will gather in Yogyakarta, Indonesia this week to celebrate significant achievements in recent years, and to chart the years ahead. The gathering of about 150 organizational leaders, researchers, activists and...
This issue includes: News from SETU Africa including -- Exposure visit of SEWA team to Tanzania -- Ethiopian delegates visit to SEWA Bharat Head Office News from SEWA including SEWA’s Role in Empowering Low Income Women
Led by SEWA Bharat as part of its mandate to develop new SEWAs, SEWA Delhi started its efforts in 1999 by organizing women vegetable vendors in Jahangirpuri urban slum. During initial survey phase, SEWA identified a large number of home-based workers in eastern part of Delhi engaged in bindi, bangle...
This report examines legal capacity building activities with home-based workers, street vendors and domestic workers from the Law and Informality Project for different regions of India where the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is active.
Based on several factors common to domestic work, such as, the specificity of the employee-employer relationship and the workplace being a private household instead of a public place or private establishment, domestic workers are often excluded from protection under existing labour laws. This...
Street vending is not only a source of self-employment to the poor in cities and towns but also a means to provide ‘affordable’ as well as ‘convenient’ services to majority of the urban population”. This paper examines Laws and Legal Issues pertaining to Street Vendors in India.
In India, issues and rights of home-based workers have remained largely unaddressed in policies and programmes. Most of the labour laws are designed for the protection of wages and working conditions of workers in the organized (formal) sector. This resource examines laws and legal issues pertaining...
Development Viewpoint, No. 83
Numerous countries have implemented seat reservations for women in politics over the past decades. Starting in the early 1990s, India’s flagship decentralisation reform instituted one-third seat reservations for women in local governance bodies. This column suggests that this political empowerment...
News from SETU Africa: Exposure visit of SEWA team to Ethiopia News from SEWA: International Literacy Day and SEWA’s Literacy Work: an outcome of Capacity-Building The CEO of the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) visits the SEWA Cooperative Federation Award conferred to SEWA Bank Annual...
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.