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  • SCHWAB Social Innovators of the Year 2023 Award - WIEGO News
    Building Collective Power January 16, 2023

    At World Economic Forum: Schwab Foundation Awards WIEGO as Social Innovator of the Year 2023

    The Social Innovation Awards recognize leaders, and social and environmental change initiatives that have the potential to respond to the...

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  • Post

    From Organizing Workers to Organizing Humanitarian Aid

    Between July and September 2022, StreetNet International, Cities Alliance and WIEGO interviewed Ukrainian women – most self-employed traders...

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  • Angélique Kipulu Katani, General Secretary of the League for the Rights of Congolese Women (LDFC) Democratic Republic of the Congo Post
    Building Collective Power January 04, 2023

    Organizing Women Workers in War and Beyond

    In this interview, Angélique Kipulu Katani, founder and current General Secretary of the League for the Rights of Congolese Women (LDFC)...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

    This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City

    Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City  WIEGO organized a dialogue on economic recovery for the informal...

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  • StreetNet International Coordinator Oksana Abboud Post
    Building Collective Power November 14, 2022

    Recognition and Respect Could Change Street Vendors’ Lives

    In this interview, StreetNet International Coordinator Oksana Abboud talks about how and why street vendors became organized and her hopes...

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  • Street food vendors Delhi Post
    Access to Public Space October 31, 2022

    Subverting Master Planning to Advance Informal Worker Interests: Lessons from Delhi

    Heeding the United Nations call to share transformative approaches to local action on World Cities Day, Focal Cities Coordinator Jenna Harvey...

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  • 25th Anniversary - Janhavi Dave Post
    Building Collective Power October 18, 2022

    Joining Hands to Organize Home-Based Workers

    In this interview, HomeNet International Coordinator Janhavi Dave tells us of proud moments in the home-based workers’ movement and shares...

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  • Waste picker in Bogota, Colombia Post
    Building Collective Power October 11, 2022

    Waste Pickers Take the Podium at UN Environment Assembly

    The hall was filled with official delegations, representatives and environmentalists, activists and organizers from more than 150 countries...

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  • A group of informal workers collecting and transporting used plastic bottles on an open field Post
    Building Collective Power October 04, 2022

    Global Plastics Treaty: Waste Pickers Ready to Talk

    “We are the face of recycling in the world, we are the hands that clean the world, we are the real heroes of the planet and nothing you try...

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