Global Research

Virtual Speaker Series: Gender and Power in COVID-19

• May 14, 2020
• Online

WIEGO’s Social Protection Director Laura Alfers joined a panel discussion as part of the WomenLift Health Gender & Power in COVID-19...

Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

Innovación y unidad: Cómo se están adaptando las personas trabajadoras en domicilio al mundo de la COVID-19

Las personas trabajadoras en domicilio están entre las más invisibilizadas y descuidadas del mundo, y están demasiado familiarizadas con...

Innovation et unité : Comment les travailleuse·eur·s à domicile s’adaptent au monde de la COVID-19

Les travailleurs à domicile sont parmi les travailleuse•eur•s les plus invisibles et les plus négligé•e•s du monde, et connaissent trop bien...

Not just hunger but also safety: Relief for waste pickers during COVID-19

by Avi Singh Majithia  May 4, 2020

WEBINAR: Impacts of COVID-19 on care politics

• May 19, 2020
• Online @socialprotection.org

9:00 am EDT (GMT-4) – 11:00 a.m. Rachel Moussié, WIEGO’s Deputy Director of Social Protection participated in a webinar, WIEGO Impacts of...

Ela R. Bhatt explains how to rebuild a society less susceptible to debt, disease and devastation

Ela R. Bhatt, long-time activist, founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union in India, and also a founder of...

Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on a Home-Based Worker in Thailand

Miss Priyamas Sooksombat lives in Noan Sa-aad community in KhonKaen province in Thailand. She is a basket and handbags/bag weaver, whose...

Memorial Tributes

WIEGO’s page acknowledges the contribution of all informal workers and their leaders in this global crisis, and send our condolences...

Delhi Roundtable Network letter: Emergency relief for waste pickers

Letter to: Shri. Arvind Kejriwal, Hon. Chief Minister, NCT of Delhi Subject: Emergency support to Informal Waste Pickers in Delhi to combat...