Theme: Workers’ Health and Safety

Occupational Injuries in Ghana

Neglect of Sewage Workers: Concerns about the New Act

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 does not give the same rights to those who manually...

The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance

Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management...

Child Labour in Industrial Outworker Households in India

Injury Morbidity in an Urban and a Rural Area in Tanzania: an Epidemiological Survey

Background: Injuries are becoming a major health problem in developing countries. Few population based studies have been carried out in African...

The Constitutional Parameters of New York State’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

The Informal Workers Health Project

This short report provides a summary of the interventions developed by WIEGO and its partners for Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal Workers...

Hierarchies of Care Work in South Africa: Nurses, Social Workers and Home-based Care Workers

Occupational Health and Safety and the Poorest

Occupationally related injury and illness is a major, but largely under-explored, potential source of worker vulnerability. This study investigates...

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