All posts in Home-Based Workers
- PostStatistics November 15, 2019
Comprendre le terme statistique « non-salarié dépendant » : une interview avec Firoza Mehrotra
L’ajout d’une nouvelle catégorie « non-salarié dépendant » dans la Classification internationale des statuts d’emploi (CISE-18), en termes...
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The European Union’s Commodification of Bulgarian Homeworkers: Regulating Informal Labour in Global Production Networks
This paper interrogates the potential of contemporary international law instruments to realize decent work for homeworkers. It grounds the...
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Ratifications of the Home Work Convention (C177)
It’s has been more than two decades since the adoption of ILO’s Home Work Convention (C177) of 1996, but only 10 countries have...
Read More - PostLivelihoods September 18, 2019
Conmemorando los 20 años de la histórica ley internacional sobre las trabajadoras y los trabajadores a domicilio
Recordando una tarjeta postal de Ginebra y reafirmando una campaña Shalini Sinha, Sector Specialist, Home-Based Workers
Read More - PostLivelihoods September 18, 2019
Five Women Informal Workers Share Their Challenges in Accessing Health Services
The poor face many challenges in accessing health services.
Read More - PostLivelihoods September 18, 2019
Commemorating 20 Years of Landmark Convention for Homeworkers
Remembering a Postcard from Geneva and Reaffirming a Campaign Shalini Sinha, Sector Specialist, Home-Based Workers
Read More - PostLivelihoods September 18, 2019
How home-based workers in Ahmedabad formed a union to improve their lives
By Carlin Carr In the first of a series of photo essays from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing (WIEGO) Carlin Carr...
Read More - PostGlobal Advocacy and Negotiations September 18, 2019
New international labour standard will help protect vulnerable workers from violence and harassment
When the 2019 International Labour Conference voted to adopt Convention 190 on Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190),...
Read More - PostLivelihoods September 18, 2019
Achieving decent employment for all requires improving workers’ homes and livelihoods
WIEGO and Slum Dwellers International (SDI) are co-chairs of the Grassroots Partners Constituency Group of the General Assembly of Partners,...
Read More - PostLivelihoods September 18, 2019
Bangkok home-based workers find strength in numbers
Down a small alleyway off of a busy Bangkok road, a residential workshop the size of a small corner store rarely stops humming. The workers,...
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