Urban Planning and Design

Street Vendors and Right to the City Workshop

• December 7, 2017

Bangkok, Thailand Photo by: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Reportage HomeNet Thailand and WIEGO hosted the Street Vendors and Right to the...

International Day of Cooperatives: Cooperation among workers in the informal economy

• July 3, 2017

Geneva, Switzerland In order to mark the celebrations of the International Day of Cooperatives (July 1st), the ILO hosted the seminar “Cooperation...

Informal Workers’ Narratives in Delhi

• January 14, 2018 - January 18, 2018

“We make the city, what does the city do for us?” Hosted by Working Peoples’ Charter (WPC), and co-curated by Alliance...

Photo Exhibit: “Waste Pickers, Living Matters in Waste: Portraits of Invisibility”

• May 2, 2017 - May 20, 2017

Criciúma, BrazilPhoto: Luis Afonso dos Santos/Coleta Seletiva Solidária 

African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference

• February 1, 2018 - February 3, 2018

Cape Town, South AfricaPhoto by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage 

World Urban Forum 9, Kuala Lumpur

• February 7, 2018 - February 13, 2018

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Photo by: Paula Bronstein, Getty images / Reportage  

Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development

• October 17, 2016 - October 20, 2016
• Quito, Ecuador

Quito, Ecuador Habitat III was the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. The Habitat III process lasted...

En temps de crise, les organisations de base réinventent la pratique démocratique

Aux quatre coins du monde, les normes démocratiques sont menacées et les conséquences à long terme s’annoncent graves. Les travailleuses...

In times of crisis, grassroots organizations re-imagine democratic practice

Democratic norms are under threat worldwide. Informal workers and other marginalized groups are witnessing the reversal of hard-fought wins...

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Inadequate infrastructure – particularly related to clean water and toilets – and the cost of accessing these takes a heavy toll...