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Funding Development Through the Lens of Tax Justice and Social Protection
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How Cooperatives Improve Workers’ Economic and Productive Capacities
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Homeworkers’ Rights at Risk with EU Directive Uncertainty
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From Isolation to Collective Power: Legal Empowerment for Domestic Workers
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Key Outcomes from the 2025 International Labour Conference and Why They Matter for Workers in Informal Employment
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The Climate Tragedy of Rio Grande do Sul Revisited from the Perspective of Waste Pickers
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Trabajadoras y trabajadores a domicilio de América Latina celebran la puesta en marcha de una nueva organización regional
Los y las trabajadoras a domicilio de América Latina han dado un importante paso con la creación de un frente unido que luche por su visibilidad...
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Latin American Home-based Workers Celebrate Launch of New Regional Organization
Latin American home-based workers have taken an important step in creating a unified front to fight for their visibility and rights as workers....
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From blood tests to aerobic dance: Training improves workers’ access to new Thai health fund – and their ideas are inspiring
Thailand is a global innovator when it comes to health promotion and prevention practices. Its Universal Health Coverage (UHC) system was...
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Recicladores y recicladoras de Medellín y Popayán y Montería reciben primer pago por servicios públicos de reciclaje
Equipo técnico y líderes de ARRECICLAR en Medellín. Foto: Arreciclar
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Bangkok’s Informal Workers Essential to Formal and Informal Functioning of City, Study Says
A Q&A on a recently released scan of four occupational sectors
We spoke with the authors of a recently released study, “Informal...
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What’s the legal recourse for street vendor evictions?
WIEGO’s law team discusses how administrative law can empower and protect informal workers in urban public spaces
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The New “Gig Economy” Meets the Old Over Need for a Better Deal for Workers
A growing number of workers in developed countries are working without the traditional employer-employee relationship in the so-called “gig...
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Joburg’s Reclaimers Win Important First Victory in Fight Against Privatization
On July 13, hundreds of Johannesburg’s informal waste pickers (known locally as “reclaimers”) — men and women who have been collecting, separating,...
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Nothing for us without us: Participatory processes and the New Urban Agenda
Half the world’s population live in cities, and urban informal workers make important economic, social, and environmental contributions to...
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In India, One-stop Shops Increase Access to Healthcare, Nutrition and Social Security Services for Working Poor
In India, the government has put in place well-meaning social security schemes, as well as health and nutrition programmes to combat malnutrition...
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