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Date: August 5, 2024 Time: 18:00 South African Standard Time Language: English only Register to attend The Wits School of Law and WIEGO invite you to the launch of the edited volume, Mapping Legalities: Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work , edited by Dr. Thomas Coggin and Dr. Roopa Madhav. Covering...
Date: Tuesday June 6, 2023 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 (EST) Duration: 90 minutes Language: English only For over two and a half decades, the global network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) has worked alongside membership-based organisations of street vendors and market traders...
Delhi, India In partnership with National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), WIEGO organized the workshop “Making Cities Work for All”, which took place on May 18th and 19th, 2018, in Delhi, India. The goal of the workshop was to increase the visibility of the informal sector in urban areas to the...
New Delhi, India Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Reportage The 12th Global Labour University (GLU) Conference took place on October 4th to 6th 2017 u nder the title “Reincarnation or Death of Neoliberalism? The rise of market authoritarianism and its challenges for labour”at the Jawaharlal...
The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy in India. Over the last 40 years, SEWA has developed a multipronged and multi-layered strategy to holistically address the needs of home-based workers, who comprise...
COVID-19 Situation and Activity On March 24, with just four hours notice, India went into a 21-day lockdown. The abrupt lockdown triggered a massive humanitarian and migration crisis as workers scrambled to get home. The lockdown has led to a massive loss of livelihoods with no informal workers in...
India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote a supportive environment for street vendors to earn their livelihoods, while reducing congestion and maintaining sanitary conditions in public spaces. This...
La India es uno de los muy pocos países que ha desarrollado una Política nacional de vendedores ambulantes urbanos. La política fue adoptada en 2004 con el objetivo de promover un ambiente favorable para que los vendedores ambulantes pudieran ganarse sus medios de sustento, que reduzca, al mismo...
The vast majority of urban workers in India today (nearly 80 per cent) are informally employed. The urban informal workforce is engaged in a wide range of activities from manufacturing in small family units, to services like domestic workers and electricians, to trade in small shops or on the...
New report reveals devastating impact of COVID-19 on Delhi’s informal workers COVID-19 devastated workers’ livelihoods and forced them into economic freefall. According to WIEGO´s research, in April 2020, 99% of domestic workers weren’t able to work, as well as 90% of street vendors and almost 70%...
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.