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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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The Destruction of Social Protection and Inclusive Labour Policies in Argentina
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Strategies for Successful Collective Negotiations
Informal worker organizations need solidarity, clarity and accountability to record bargaining wins
It might be surprising to learn that...
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Technology at the bottom of the economic pyramid: What’s inhibiting uptake by informal workers?
By Kendra Hughes
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‘You don’t need Facebook to tell you how to pick waste’
Technology and innovation at the base of the economic pyramid
Nisha is nineteen years old and spends her days hunched over a small board...
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Los derechos de los recicladores y las recicladoras de Ciudad de México son reconocidos por la Comisión de Derechos Humanos
En agosto de 2016, la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal (CDHDF) publicó por primera vez una Recomendación sobre el servicio...
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Mexico City’s Waste Pickers Gain Support of City’s Human Rights Commission
In August 2016, Mexico City’s Commission on Human Rights (CDHDF) issued the first-ever recommendation on waste management service to...
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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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A Union for All: Dar es Salaam’s Mchikichini market vendors join hands with formal workers in model solidarity
By Carlin Carr
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Five Case Studies that Illustrate Steps Toward an Inclusive City
Creating “inclusive cities” is a hot topic right now. Habitat III has just wound up in Quito, Ecuador – the UN’s urban conference that brought...
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“Our role has been to make the informal economy visible and give it validity”
Renana Jhabvala discusses the UN Secretary-General’s first-ever High-level Panel (UN HLP) for Women’s Economic EmpowermentRenana Jhabvala...
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Domestic workers in Johannesburg: Hidden, vulnerable and essential
By Leslie VryenhoekDomestic workers represent a vast, hidden and essential workforce whose efforts inside private homes allow their employers...
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