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This document was one of the five policy briefs prepared by the WIEGO Network for the United Nations High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment (UN HLP).
Road sides, public markets, homes and landfill sites – all are sites where informal workers work and all are sites that mark an unexamined intersection between urban health and safety and occupational health and safety. Occupational health and safety is generally confined to national level labour...
This report details the events and activities of the consultation, "Women's Voices from the Informal Economy" held at SEWA headquarters in Ahmedabad over August 4 - 5. The consultation was jointly hosted by SEWA and UN Women, and forms part of the United Nations’ High Level Panel (HLP) on Women’s...
El borde de la carretera, los mercados públicos, los hogares y vertederos: todos éstos son sitios donde los trabajadores informales trabajan, y todos son sitios que marcan una intersección no examinada entre la salud y seguridad urbana y la salud y seguridad ocupacional. La salud y seguridad...
Bords de route, marchés publics, maisons, décharges... Autant de lieu de travail des travailleurs informels, tous des lieux non examinés, mais où se croisent la santé et sécurité urbaine d’une part et, d’autre part, la santé et sécurité au travail (SST). En général, celle-ci constitue un domaine...
WIEGO commemorates 15 years of struggle and victories for the Movimento Nacional dos Catadores de Materias Recicláveis (MNCR, National Movement of Waste Pickers of Recycled Material). WIEGO comemora 15 anos de luta e vitória para o Movimento Nacional dos Catadores de Materias Recicláveis (MNCR)...
More information about the project is also available on the Global Labour website.
We, the Women representatives of Informal Cross Border Trader’s Associations (ICBTs) drawn from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe met in Johannesburg, South Africa for the Women Cross Border Traders Forum on Mainstreaming Gender in the SADC...
This document (in Spanish), developed by informal workers' organizations from Peru, presents a set of recommendations in three main areas: governance and social dialogue, social protection, and financial and productivity support. The purpose was to engage with political parties that were contending...
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.