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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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A Tragédia Climática do Rio Grande do Sul Revisitada à Luz dos Catadore-as de Recicláveis
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The Destruction of Social Protection and Inclusive Labour Policies in Argentina
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Amid austerity and aid cuts, workers need to deepen their understanding of domestic financing of social protection
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Street Vendors and Market Traders in 12 Countries: Key Facts
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A Year in Street Vendor Trends, and What To Watch in 2025
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Labour Rights are Human Rights! Beyond the Slogan for Workers in Informal Employment
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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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Connecting Waste Pickers During the Pandemic
WIEGO’s CataSaúde Viraliza project – an online capacity building course – was created in Brazil in 2020 as a response to challenges posed...
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Conectando os catadores de resíduos durante a pandemia
O projeto CataSaúde Viraliza da WIEGO – um curso de capacitação on-line – foi criado no Brasil em 2020 como uma resposta aos desafios da...
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Top 5 Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2021
2021 was another tough year for informal workers. The crisis is by no means over for them, so we’re looking at what we have learnt...
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Defender o acesso às vacinas contra a COVID-19: experiências de trabalhadorxs no emprego informal
À medida que a gente se aproxima do final de 2021, bilhões de pessoas têm sido vacinadas contra a COVID-19 – sendo a vacinação amplamente...
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Advocating for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines: Workers’ Experiences
As we near the end of 2021, billions of people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 – widely regarded as the best way out of this pandemic,...
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Are Unfounded Assumptions About the Informal Economy Undermining Universal Social Protection?
It is fair to say that there are a number of legitimate and often complex challenges that governments face in expanding social protection...
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Informal Workers in Southeast Asia: Resourceless, yet Resourceful
Informal workers dominate the region’s labor market in both urban and rural areas. More than half of the workforce in most Southeast Asian...
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The Urgent Need to Question Senegal’s Commitment to Ensuring Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods
The restructuring of the Mbeubeuss dump where over 2,000 men and women earn their living is part of Senegal’s “acceleration” programme...
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