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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
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    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

    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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  • Policy Briefs

    Claiming Space for Informal Work in Master Planning: Reflections from a People’s Campaign in Delhi

    Master plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of...

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  • Elizabeth Tang IDWF hero image Post
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    Unity of Informal Workers is Key to Domestic Workers’ Success

    In this interview, Elizabeth Tang, General Secretary of the International Domestic Workers’ Federation (IDWF), tells us what she hopes to...

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  • Thumbnail The Struggle for the Soul of Bhadra Chowk – A Heritage Plaza or Heritage Market? Resource Documents

    The Struggle for the Soul of Bhadra Chowk – A Heritage Plaza or Heritage Market? A Case Study from Ahmedabad, India

    This case study documents the history of the struggle by street vendors, with SEWA’s support, to retain their right to vend – and their natural...

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