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  • A garment worker stitches in Tiruppur, India, during the Covid-19 pandemic Post
    Building Collective Power

    The Devil Is in the Detail: The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability and Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains

    How close collaboration between homeworker organizations and key allies secured a huge victory: for the first time, EU legislation on corporate...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Desafios dos sindicatos na organização e representação das pessoas trabalhadoras em emprego informal

    Com a intenção de aprofundar o conhecimento e a compreensão da relação entre sindicatos e pessoas trabalhadoras em empregos informais, a...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Report on challenges faced by trade unions in organizing and representing workers in informal employment

    To deepen knowledge and understanding of the relationship between trade unions and workers in informal employment, CUT Brasil and WIEGO conducted...

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  • Technical Briefs

    Implementing ILO R204 on the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy: Lessons from South Africa’s Experience

    The responsibility for implementation of the International Labour Organization’s Recommendation 204 concerning the Transition from the Informal...

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  • Salimata Traore, a street vendor, at her market stall with textiles and groceries in Grand Yoff Post
    Collective Bargaining

    Street Vendors Organize Against Evictions in Dakar

    Dakar’s street vendors have united in the PASI platform to assert their rights and propose alternative solutions to the evictions and relocations...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Unlocking Strength and Resilience: The Self Employed Women’s Association’s COVID-19 Strategies in Delhi

      The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) has over 2.5 million members across 18 states in India. SEWA organizes women workers to achieve...

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  • Resource Documents

    New Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the KAMBE Savings and Credit Cooperative in Uganda

    The experience of the KAMBE SACCO highlights the importance of savings as a safety net for workers in informal employment in times of emergency....

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    MBO Newsletter – March 2024

    Achieving gender balance and democratic leadership for all workers in informal employment is the focus of this MBO Newsletter. Many questions...

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  • e-Shram - Informal Workers in India Post
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    Registering Informal Workers in India: e-Shram, an Opportunity Lost?

    The launch of e-Shram, a national database of workers who earn a living in the informal economy, holds lessons for implementation going forward...

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  • Renana Jhabvala, co-founder of SEWA and former chair of WIEGO Post
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    Statistics as a Catalyst for Making Women Workers Visible

    Renana Jhabvala, co-founder of SEWA and former chair of WIEGO, talks about the historical relationship between both organizations, and the...

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