Theme: Global Research

For World’s Street Vendors, Life May Never be the Same after COVID-19

Street vendors provide essential services in cities across the globe, particularly in Africa, Asia and South America, where residents rely...

Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Labour and Employment in India: Impact, Strategies and Perspectives

• June 8, 2020 - June 9, 2020
• Online

COVID-19 na Wafanyakazi Bilioni Mbili Duniani wa Uchumi Usio Rasmi

Jukwaa la mshikamano wa kimataifa la Mtandao wa WIEGO  Mei 1, 2020 English   Español   Français   Hindi   

ILO Director-General calls for global solidarity to address COVID-19’s unequal harm

The director-general of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, talks to Al Jazeera about the twin pressures on nations of...

Resilience on the front lines: Building clean, healthy cities for clean, healthy seas

• June 2, 2020
• Online

On Tuesday, 2 June, 7:30 am – 8:30 a.m. EDT, waste sector specialist from WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, Dr. Sonia M. Dias, joined global...

Resources: COVID-19 Guidelines for Informal Traders in South Africa

COVID-19 Poster Guidelines for Informal Traders (in streets, markets and spaza shops) Poster  

SEWA Bharat examines Gendered Precarity in India’s Lockdown

SEWA Bharat – the All India Federation of Self-employed Women’s Associations – has published the results of a phone survey it conducted in...

Informal workers can help stop COVID-19 infection spread in Peru and throughout Latin America

  Despite the troubling and false narrative that has taken hold in Peru and is spreading across Latin America about the role of informal...

Informal workers can help stop COVID-19 infection spread in Peru and Latin America

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Sustainability after COVID-19: Building gender equality into the response

• May 26, 2020
• Online

9:00 am EDT (GMT-4) – 10:30 a.m. WIEGO Waste Specialist Dr. Sonia M. Dias participated in a Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) webinar...