Workers’ Health and Safety

Occupational Health & Safety for Market and Street Traders in Accra and Takoradi, Ghana

The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Barriers to Access for Informal Workers

Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers, and, as such, it...

The Place of Informal Workers and the Informal Economy in Approaches to Social Protection

Increasing numbers of workers across the world experience eroding work related to social protection and those who ‘do’ social policy see...

Borderline Slavery: Child Trafficking in Togo

Occupational Injury in Rural Bangladesh: Data Gathering Using Household Survey

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Saúde & Segurança Ocupacional para Comerciantes e Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra e Takoradi, Gana

The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune: KKPKP and SWaCH Members Push for Health Rights

This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their...

Violence and Informal Work – Briefing Note

this briefing note highlights the causes and impact of violence  that  informal  workers  experience  in  trying  to  secure  their  livelihoods....

From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan Labour Force

A comparative analysis of paid leave for the health needs of workers and their families around the world

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