Workers’ Health and Safety

Extending social security to workers in the informal sector: a view from the ground

In this article, Laura Alfers discusses how the extension of social security to informal workers is possible.

How Universal Health Coverage Reaches the World’s Poorest: Community Health Workers

Pushpa Rathod’s work days are unpredictable. On any given day, she may be talking to adolescents about their health, counseling women working...

Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

StreetNet Interational: Organizing for Social Protection

This pamphlet showcases the work and goals of StreetNet International in helping street vendors gain social protection. It was produced with...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...

Universal Health Coverage Workshop at ASEAN People’s Forum

• September 12, 2019 - 12:00pm
• Bangkok, Thailand

HomeNet Southeast Asia, in collaboration with regional advocacy platform SEA Junction and WIEGO, held a panel discussion on social protection...

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador

Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

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Developing an Action-based Health and Safety Training Project in Southern China