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    Resumen Ejectivo – La situación de los derechos humanos de la comunidad recicladora en América Latina: un reclamo urgente por respeto a través de estándares internacionales

    El objetivo de este informe es brindar argumentos y herramientas jurídicas que permitan proteger efectivamente los derechos humanos de las...

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  • SEWA health care worker, member of cooperative Project

    WIEGO’s Work with Cooperatives

    Cooperatives are an important form of democratic organization and solidarity for informal workers, who come together to gain access to services...

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  • Woman working at Mbeubeuss landfill, Dakar News
    SSE and Cooperatives October 07, 2019

    Project to help improve working conditions for Mbeubeuss waste pickers

    WIEGO and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have launched a joint initiative to work with waste pickers at Mbeubeuss, the largest...

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  • Brazilian catadores with truck News
    SSE and Cooperatives September 21, 2019

    Brazilian recyclers take the wheel in door to door collection

    In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a new model of selective collection has given informal catadores (recyclers) responsibility for collecting door-to-door...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The Self-Employed Women’s Association

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  • Journal Articles

    Organizing the ‘Unorganized’: Varieties of Transnational Trade Union Collaboration and Social Dialogue in Two Indian Cities

    Special issue on labor in the global South

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  • Research Reports

    Extending Labor Standards to Informal Workers at the Base of Global Garment Value Chains: New Institutions in the Labor Market

    This report presents three examples of emerging institutional arrangements in the labor market from the perspective of the author who works...

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  • Research Reports

    Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004

    Abstract:

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  • Journal Articles

    Organizing Informal Workers by Combining Power, Protection, and PoliticsSocial Policy

    Summary from article: The number of contingent, casual, irregular workers is rising both in the developed and developing world. In the United...

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  • Research Reports

    Informal Employment, Labour Law and the Challenge of Enforcement

    In order to regulate, improve and standarDize informal labor, there is a need for a strategic vision of labor regulation supported by theories,...

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