Theme: Building Collective Power

It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center

Excerpt from the opinion piece, It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center by Darren Walker (president...

MBO Newsletter December 2021

Empowering Domestic Workers: Community Paralegals Project

Community paralegals –who are members of a community or group trained in the law to assist their fellow community or group members with legal...

Waste pickers in Tshwane (Pretoria) face displacement and loss of livelihoods as a result of evictions

WIEGO and its affiliates stand in solidarity with the 180 waste pickers in Mushroomville who were given notice of eviction on 15th November...

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...

Inequalities and the World of Work: A Major Challenge of Our Time

• November 25, 2021 - December 11, 2021
• ILO Headquarters, Geneva
  Virtual

109th Session of the International Labour Conference  

Enabling Social Protection within the Informal Economy: Lessons from Worker-led Schemes in Nigeria, Uganda and Togo

This synthesis report, for the “New Forms of Social Insurance for the Economic Inclusion of Women & Young Informal Workers” research...

Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Incorporating needs of home-based workers in city plans and policies (3)

This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

Winning a Right to the Sidewalks: Street Vendors in New York

This Brief seeks to identify and examine certain factors that led to the proposal to reform New York’s street vending legislation that...

MBO Newsletter September 2021