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We, organizations of workers in informal employment across the world, call on governments at all levels to partner with us on relief. Informal work accounts for more than 61% of all global employment – some two billion workers – and in developing countries, we make up 90% of total employment...
Twenty-five years ago today — on 18 April 1997 — WIEGO’s founders embarked on a journey to support women workers in the informal economy.
Three global networks of workers in the informal economy – HomeNet International (HNI), the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) and StreetNet International (SNI) – participated in the second part of the International Labour Conference (ILC) from 25 November to 10 December 2021, along...
A global, multi-city study by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) has found that informal workers in Accra are in crisis, earning far less in 2021 than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has responded to this crisis with...
WIEGO joins the Union of Informal Workers Associations (UNIWA) to call upon the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in Accra, Ghana to immediately stop, and make remedy for, forced evictions of vendors and informal workers. Thousands of workers in the capital have been targeted under an ongoing...
Nearly one-third of respondents in mid-2021 said family members had gone hungry over the last month. Despite dire need, government cash and food support has stagnated since the first three months of the pandemic. A global study tracking informal workers’ lives during the COVID-19 crisis has found...
In time for the COP 26 United Nations Climate Change Conference, a new tool for calculating greenhouse gas emissions mitigated by waste pickers activity will be shared with the public for the first time. In 2020, waste pickers from Colombia’s Association of Recyclers of Bogotá (ARB) prevented the...
Contact: Nicole Pryor - nicole.pryor@wiego.org , Graciela Mora - graciela.mora@wiego.org , Kendra Hughes - kendra.hughes@wiego.org Garment workers from production countries call for new EU supply chain directive to stop exploitative working conditions Worker organizations and trade unions seek a new...
Personas en trabajo informal demandan ser incluidas en recuperación económica Estudio de WIEGO revela que más de la mitad de las personas entrevistadas dejaron de de trabajar durante el confinamiento. Represe ntantes de organizaciones de trabajo informal, la Presidenta de la Comisión de Derechos...
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.