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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    A Global Snapshot of Home-Based Workers

    Pocket Tools for Homeworkers Working in Garment Supply Chains is part of a series produced by the Home-based Workers Organizing for Economic...

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  • Waste picker in Latin America Post
    Legal Empowerment December 07, 2020

    Human rights violations signal urgent need to improve waste pickers’ working conditions in Latin America

    For waste pickers, harassment is a part of daily life, also before the pandemic. Our reports on human rights in Latin America serve as a...

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  • Technical Briefs

    Waste Pickers and Carbon Finance: Issues to Consider

    This Technical Brief clarifies the requirements for carbon finance mechanisms to provide an assessment of whether informal waste picker membership-based...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Challenges and Experiences in Organizing Home-Based Workers in Bulgaria

    The Home-Based Workers’ Association in Bulgaria is an extraordinary example of how informal women workers have managed to build a strong...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Defining and Categorizing Organizations of Informal Workers in Developing and Developed Countries

    This organizing brief, written for researchers and activists concerned about informal workers, aims to capture the full range of or­ganizational...

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  • Working Papers

    Global Networking: Informal Workers Build Solidarity, Power and Representation through Networks and Alliances

    Over the past three decades informal workers, mainly in the global South and their organizations have joined and launched global networks...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Laws, Legitimacy and Ongoing Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian Policies on Domestic Workers’ Rights

    This Policy Brief explores domestic worker struggles in Bolivia.  It concentrates on laws and policies applied by the government of Evo Morales...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    The Mobilization of Bolivian Domestic Workers

    This brief describes the mobilization of domestic workers in Bolivia focusing particularly on the campaign that led to the approval of the...

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  • Working Papers

    Collective Bargaining by Informal Workers in the Global South: Where and How It Takes Place

    This Working Paper examines what collective negotiation (bargaining) looks like and what it means for informal worker organizations and their...

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  • Resource Documents

    Street Vendor Licensing and Permits — Reflections from StreetNet International

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