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By: Avi Singh Majithia July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary The lockdown in Delhi came down harshly on street vendors, as it did for many other workers in the city’s massive informal economy. Announced on 24th March with just 4 hours’ notice, an empty city meant that the city’s vendors...
Overview on domestic workers, numbers and challenges: More than 60 million domestic workers in the world provide essential services so others can work outside their homes. Most are women and most are from poorer sections of society. By cooking, cleaning and caring for children and the elderly...
Waste pickers provide essential services and face specific risks in this pandemic--from handling contaminated materials to losing essential daily earnings when governments order work stoppages and tell people to stay home. Their organizations are stepping up to help and to advocate for them.
En 2017 WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) inició el “Proyecto de reconocimiento de la situación de los derechos humanos de los recicladores en América Latina”, a través del cual se documentó la situación y violaciones a los derechos humanos de los recicladores en 6...
ILO estimates indicate that close to 20 million people worldwide earn their living from recycling waste. Many work as waste pickers who gather and sort materials on landfills or open dumpsites, collect waste from garbage bags or containers in public spaces, and collect household waste. Waste pickers...
WIEGO produces a range of publications and resources – including books and briefs, videos and worker training kits. All are available free on our website.
Our Mission Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network dedicated to improving the working conditions of the working poor – especially women – in the informal economy. We strive for equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice for all workers...
Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. This page explores their contributions, numbers, working conditions, the policies that affect them and their organizing activities.
What is the Informal Economy? The informal economy is the diversified set of economic activities, enterprises, jobs, and workers that are not regulated or protected by the state. The concept originally applied to self-employment in small unregistered enterprises. It has been expanded to include wage...
WIEGO’s History The WIEGO Network was founded in 1997 by 10 activists, researchers, and development practitioners who shared a concern that the working poor in the informal economy, especially women, are not understood, valued, or supported in policy circles or by the international development...
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.