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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 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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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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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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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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