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Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19

Leslie Vryenhoek, with files from Laura Morillo

11 May 2020

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and isolation. Increasingly, however, they have been organizing. The COVID-19 crisis has underlined just how valuable that collective association can be for individuals—and for communities. This blog provides examples of how home-based workers have met the challenge by adapting.

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¿Quién está haciendo realmente más ecológicas las ciudades del futuro?

Pilar Balbuena, Sonia M. Dias

7 December 2019

Junto con el inicio de la COP25, nuestro profundo análisis de dos años de cobertura periodística revela que el ejército ecológico de personas recicladoras, protagonistas de las iniciativas de reciclaje urbano, merece un mayor reconocimiento por sus esfuerzos para resolver uno de los problemas más acuciantes de nuestra época.

Inclusive Cities / Urban Policies, Environment/Climate change, Global Advocacy

Qui travaille vraiment à l’écologisation des villes d’avenir ?

Pilar Balbuena, Sonia M. Dias

7 December 2019

Alors que la COP25 est lancée, notre couverture détaillée de l’actualité des deux dernières années révèle que l’armée verte de récupératrices et récupérateurs de matériaux vouée au recyclage urbain mérite d’être mieux reconnue pour l’énergie qu’elle consacre à résoudre l’un des problèmes les plus urgents de notre époque.

Inclusive Cities / Urban Policies, Environment/Climate change, Global Advocacy

Who’s really “greening” future cities?

Pilar Balbuena, Sonia M. Dias

7 December 2019

As COP25 gets underway, our deep dive into two years of news coverage reveals that the green army of waste pickers leading urban recycling efforts deserves greater recognition for its efforts in solving one of the most pressing problems of our times.

Inclusive Cities / Urban Policies, Environment/Climate change, Global Advocacy

What’s missing from the future of work debates? Social protection for 2 billion workers

WIEGO Blog

26 November 2019

Although the world is abuzz over robots and automation in debates over the “future of work,” we know the reality is that 61 per cent of the world’s workers are informal. Particularly in developing economies, this massive informal workforce often lacks even the most essential social protections, including healthcare, childcare and social security.

Social Protection, Future of Work

City-level statistical snapshots for South Africa and Thailand available for the first time

Joann Vanek

5 November 2019

WIEGO's Statistics Programme is launching a new set of Statistical Briefs that provide key indicators of informal employment and key categories of informal workers at the geographic levels of metros, urban and national. It is a guiding belief of the programme that statistics are essential in making the invisible visible.

Statistics