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The October 6-8 global e-conference "Turning the COVID-19 Crisis into an Opportunity: What's Next for Social Protection?" provided a space to evaluate, share experiences on and learn about social protection responses to COVID-19 and allowed the community to discuss the future of social protection in...
In August 2020, The Global Labour University launched a free self-paced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Global Supply Chains in Times of COVID-19, to provide practitioners, scholars and unionists from around the world with critical knowledge on the impact of the COVID-19 on workers in global...
September 2, 2020: 3 PM (CEST, UTC+2) The World Bank in collaboration with UNU-WIDER , the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the Network on Jobs and Development hosted a virtual conference focused on 'Better Jobs for Development' from September 1 – September 4, 2020. This followed the success...
7:30 am EDT (GMT -4) – 9:30 AM The COVID-19 pandemic has left hundreds of millions of precarious and informal workers on the brink of becoming destitute. In richer countries, some workers have received temporary income support, but many are now under pressure to return to work without adequate...
9am NY / 10am Montevideo / 2pm London / 3pm Brussels / 4pm Nairobi / 8pm Bangkok The COVID-19 Pandemic has starkly exposed how the role of care is central to sustain life in our societies. In a context of a health crisis, where "staying at home" is one of the main strategies to face the emergency...
Sixty-one per cent of all workers –2 billion people– are informally employed. Many of those who work informally, live in slums and their homes also serve as places of work. The existing inequalities and infrastructural deficits within the informal economy have been brought into stark focus by the...
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. CEST (GMT+2) The International Day of Cooperatives (IDC) is celebrated on the first Saturday of July every year. The theme of the 2020 IDC was "Cooperatives for Climate Action" as linked with Sustainable Development Goal 13 on taking urgent action to combat climate change and...
17 juin 2020 l 11h00 l Temps Universel Coordonné (TUC) En collaboration avec le Ministère de la Microfinance et de l'Economie sociale et solidaire et la Ville de Dakar, le Réseau des Acteurs et Collectivités territoriales pour l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire (RACTES) organise un webinaire gratuit...
The COVID-19 pandemic has created devastating setbacks for the environmental sector, including the movement to transition away from single-use plastics, improve our ability to collect and recycle plastic waste, and prevent plastic from leaking into our oceans and waterways. On Wednesday, June 10...
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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.