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Informal Workers See a Long Road to Recovery Ahead — Unless Governments Act
Data from the first round of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study in 12 cities point to three common patterns across...
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Coping with COVID-19: SEWA’s Domestic Workers on the Pandemic and Beyond
Two domestic workers from India share their experiences about the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on their work and lives, the difficulties...
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Cómo hacerle frente a la COVID-19: las trabajadoras del hogar de SEWA durante la pandemia y más allá
Dos trabajadoras domésticas de India comparten su experiencia sobre el impacto de la COVID-19 y el aislamiento obligatorio en su trabajo...
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Trabajadoras del hogar: en primera línea de la pandemia y en riesgo
En todo el mundo, al menos 67 millones de personas están empleadas como trabajadoras del hogar. Gracias a su labor, que permite que las familias...
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Domestic workers are on the frontline of this pandemic, and at risk
Worldwide, at least 67 million people are employed as domestic workers. Their work allows families living in those households to do their...
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Le recyclage en Colombie : Un service essentiel en temps de la COVID-19
Dans un webinaire de la série La voix des travailleuse·eur·s, Nohra Padilla, dirigeante de l’Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) et...
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El reciclaje en Colombia: Un servicio esencial en tiempos de COVID-19
En un seminario virtual de la serie La voz de las trabajadoras y trabajadores, Nohra Padilla, líder de la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá...
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Recycling in Colombia: An Essential Service in the Time of COVID-19
In a webinar from WIEGO’s Workers´ Voices series, Nohra Padilla—leader of the Waste Pickers Association of Bogotá and ANR—shares with other...
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Reaching the ‘missing middle’: Social protection for informal workers in COVID-19
With formal workers buffered to some extent by the protection provided through their formalized work relations, and the poorest of the poor...
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Cómo llegar al “sector intermedio olvidado”: Protección social para trabajadorxs en empleo informal durante la pandemia de COVID-19
Dado que la situación de lxs trabajadorxs en empleo formal se ve atenuada, hasta cierto punto, por la protección que reciben a través de...
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