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Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey findings show that the majority of domestic workers earn a wage that is insufficient to cover their basic needs. This policy brief makes recommendations for...
Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey findings show that the majority of domestic workers earn a wage that is insufficient to cover their basic needs. This policy brief makes recommendations for...
In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while the number of men in home-based work has declined. From 2013/14 to 2017/18, the number of home-based workers increased from approximately 3.59 to 4.37 million...
In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million non-agricultural and 7.4 million agricultural home-based workers, according to the 2016/17 Labour Force Survey. This represents, respectively, about 5.2 and 12.1 per cent of the employed population aged 15 and older. The data presented in this brief are...
En la Ciudad de México y en las zonas urbanas de México, las mujeres representan el 42% y los hombres el 58% de la fuerza laboral (Tabla 1).1 A nivel nacional, la proporción de mujeres en México es levemente inferior, con un 39%. Entre 2013 y 2019, el empleo en México aumentó en más de 5 millones de...
Employment in India is overwhelmingly informal: 90 per cent of all workers are employed under informal arrangements nationally; in urban areas and in Delhi, the proportion is 80 per cent. This brief provides comparative data from 2011-12 and 2017-18 for informal workers in all India, and by urban...
The survey on which this Resource Document is based shows that, for many people in the New York City neighbourhood of Flushing, a good neighbourhood with welcoming public spaces is one that includes street vendors. The research approach used here can serve as an example for activists and advocates...
Totally reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important if we take into consideration that waste pickers are an essential part of the economy, providing and sustaining the recycling market in Brazil, write Sonia Dias, Ricardo Abussafy, Juliana Gonçalves and João Pedro Martins. This report...
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.