Theme: Building Collective Power

Improving the Visibility of the Philippines’ Informal Workforce

In this interview, Lourdes Gula, President of PATAMABA, talks about the legacy of the organization of informal workers in the Philippines...

African Domestic Workers Fighting for Rights and Reclaiming Power

Society is still not valuing domestic workers more than a decade after the International Labour Organization adopted a convention extending...

Collective Bargaining and Occupational Health and Safety for Informal Self-Employed Workers: Realizing ILO Recommendation 204

• June 27, 2023
• Warsaw, Poland

WIEGO will take part in the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) conference with a panel titled “Collective Bargaining and Occupational...

Глобальный документ с изложением позиции организаций работников неформальной экономики 111-я сессия МКТ – Общее обсуждение: Достижение справедливого перехода к экологически устойчивой экономике и обществу для всех

Международные сети работников неформальной экономики и WIEGO приветствуют доклад МОТ «Достижение справедливого перехода к экологически устойчивой...

111th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC)

• June 5, 2023 - June 16, 2023
• ILO Headquarters
  Geneva

111th Session of the International Labour Conference: A just transition towards sustainable and inclusive economies, and labour protection The...

Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 – The Domestic Workers’ Convention (Caribbean Region)

WIEGO and the IDWF partnered to write this toolkit to support IDWF affiliates in their efforts to make C189 real for domestic workers. The...

WIEGO in the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF)

• May 1, 2023 - May 6, 2023
• Dakar, Sénégal

Global Position Paper from Organizations of Workers in the Informal Economy ILC 110th Session – General discussion on Social and Solidarity...

‘We Are Not Alone’: Waste Pickers Worldwide Unite

In this interview, Leonor Larraburu of the Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Economía Popular (UTEP) in Argentina tells us about...

Efforts of Argentina’s Informal Waste Pickers to Finance Decent Work and Social Protection through Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation

Based on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, organizations of informal waste pickers in Argentina have drafted a law that...

For an Organization to Move, It Needs Women

In this interview, Gladys Mponda, Vice President of  the Malawi Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS), talks about the value of organizing,...