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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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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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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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