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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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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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Homes Double as Workplaces for Many Urban Poor, Especially Women
To highlight the challenges faced by home-based workers as well as efforts to address these challenges, the WIEGO network commissioned resources...
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Building Back Better: Informal Workers Stake Their Claim for an Inclusive Delhi
Delhi stands at a critical historical juncture. More than a year after the onset of the COVID-19 crisis and a few months after a devastating...
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Regulating Informal Food Vending in Times of COVID-19 and Beyond: Best Practices from Africa and Latin America
Governments, preoccupied with guaranteeing the availability of essential goods and services, compiled lists of essential activities that...
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Pandemic Policies: What Governments Did to Reach the Most Vulnerable Workers
COVID-19 has exposed government inaction in extending dignity and fairness to informal economy workers in the most brutal way. Let’s take...
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Políticas públicas durante la pandemia: qué hicieron los gobiernos para llegar a lxs trabajadorxs más vulnerables
“Nuestras manos cartoneras han hecho del mundo un lugar mejor.” – Jaquelina Flores, de la Alianza Global de Recicladores.
“Esto es trabajo....
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Politiques en pandémie : Ce que les gouvernements ont fait pour atteindre les travailleuse·eur·s les plus vulnérables
“Nos mains de récupératrice·eur·s de matériaux ont rendu le monde meilleur.” – Jaquelina Flores de l’Alliance mondiale des récupératrice·eur·s.
“C’est...
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