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Informal Enterprises Generate Jobs Yet Face Overarching Bias
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There is No Circularity Without Waste Pickers
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From Data to Action: Worker-Led Research to Shape Climate Debates
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Systems Change in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Power-Shifts Framework
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How Do Cooperatives Support Worker Recognition and Political Representation?
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Funding Development Through the Lens of Tax Justice and Social Protection
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How Do Cooperatives Ensure Accessible Healthcare and Childcare for Workers?
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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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Domestic Workers Worldwide: 5 Key Facts
In this blog, we highlight statistics that make visible the size and significance of the domestic worker sector. Data from 155 countries...
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Why an Enforceable Protocol on Social Protection is Essential in Africa
The African Union recently adopted a Protocol on Social Protection, which is significant because it means that the African Union now has...
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4 Ways Informal Workers Use Cooperatives
A delegation of workers at the recent ILC conference on Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy noted the importance of optimizing...
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India’s Street Vendor Protection Act: Good on Paper But Is It Working?
India’s Street Vendor Protection Act was enacted after a long struggle and is widely lauded, yet a close look nearly a decade later shows...
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Waste Pickers Organize Into a Cooperative: Will Senegal Include Them in its Waste Management Plan?
Waste pickers at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite have set up their own cooperative in an effort to be integrated into the new waste management model...
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The Pandemic is Not Over
The rhetoric of an easing COVID-19 pandemic obscures the array of occupational health and safety risks that the world’s informal workers...
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World Bank’s Push for Individual Savings Provides Little Protection for Crisis-hit Workers
A recently launched report by the World Bank that provides guidance on how to expand Social Protection for the Informal Economy in Africa...
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Worker-led Social Protection Schemes Provide a Lifeline
Informal economy worker-led social protection schemes are certainly not a substitute for universal social protection, but they can play a...
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International Women’s Day 2022
For International Women’s Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic...
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Five Ways Waste Pickers Built Connections During the Pandemic
During the pandemic, when waste pickers face harassment, eviction, stigmatization and a decline in earnings, building connections has proven...
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