Theme: Workers’ Health and Safety

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...

Swept Under the Rug: Abuses Against Domestic Workers Throughout the World

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

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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....

The Pitfalls of Home: Protecting the Health and Safety of Paid Domestics

Epidemiological Surveillance of Informal Worker’s Health in Two Cities in Southeastern Brazil

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Saúde & Segurança Ocupacional para os Fornecedores Nativos em Acra, Gana

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