Theme: Women's Economic Empowerment

Jennifer Thaís Santos Fernandes, member of the National Movement of Waste Pickers in Brazil

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HomeNet International brings a united global voice to home-based workers

Home-based workers and their allies are launching a global network in February 2021. HomeNet International (HNI) will unite the voices of...

Global 16 Days Campaign

• November 25, 2020 - December 10, 2020
• Online

The Global 16 Days Campaign, launched in collaboration with global feminists by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at its first...

Gender Equality: a Data and Policy Dialogue

• November 24, 2020
• Online

Part of the UN DESA Global Online Policy Dialogue Series November 24, 2020: 8:00 -9:30 am EST New data from the UN Secretary-General’s report...

SEWA & COVID 19: A Holistic Response

The COVID 19 pandemic-cum-lockdown in India have impacted the physical, mental and economic health of SEWA’s members and other informal workers...

WIEGO joins call for IMF to stop promoting austerity measures in the COVID-19 recovery period

We, the undersigned, call on the IMF to immediately stop promoting austerity around the world, and instead advocate policies that advance...

COVID-19: What happens to women with low incomes after they lose their jobs?

“It’s very hard to see what the other end of this crisis is going to look like at the grassroots level, at the base of the economic...

Call for brands to extend one-time contribution to all garment workers

WIEGO, Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) and HomeNet South East Asia (HNSEA) 
demand that brands extend a one-time...

The Informal Economy Revisited – landmark book in open access

This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

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...