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July 02, 2025 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Launches Consultation on Methane Reduction & Inclusive Waste Management

June 10, 2025 Remembering Dan Gallin, a Visionary Trade Unionist and Friend to Workers Everywhere

May 27, 2025 Ten Years After Recommendation 204, Workers in Informal Employment Continue Their Call for Rights-Based Formalization

April 30, 2025 May Day 2025: Storms Don’t Break Us – They Build Us

April 15, 2025 Our Decision to Leave X

April 03, 2025 Announcing “Formalizing the Informal Economy”: A Webinar Series Towards the 2025 International Labour Conference

March 31, 2025 The New WIEGO Website is Live: Research Library, Worker Resource Hub & Much More

March 28, 2025 WIEGO Mourns the Passing of Dave Spooner

March 12, 2025 WIEGO Co-organizes Workshops on Promoting Health Justice and Systems Change for Workers in Informal Employment in Brazil and India

March 04, 2025 Citizen Data and Inclusive Statistics: WIEGO Showcases Waste Pickers at the UN

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COVID-19 Crisis Study March 17, 2021

TV interview on lockdown’s impact on informal workers in South Africa

WIEGO’s Urban Policies Research Director, Caroline Skinner, spoke with eNCA’s Uveka Rangappa on March 16 about the impact of...

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COVID-19 Crisis Study February 23, 2021

Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19

This joint WIEGO and UN Women advocacy initiative gives an in-depth account of the experiences of women informal workers in South Africa...

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SSE and Cooperatives February 18, 2021

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...

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January 20, 2021

Message du Nouvel An de notre coordinatrice internationale

Bonne année à toutes et à tous. Alors que nous réfléchissons à l’année 2020, j’espère que les défis sans précédent de cette année ont été...

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January 20, 2021

Mensaje de año nuevo de nuestra coordinadora internacional

Feliz año nuevo! Al reflexionar sobre el 2020, deseo que, a pesar de haber enfrentado desafíos sin precedentes, hayan encontrado momentos...

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January 20, 2021

New Year’s Message from our International Coordinator

Happy New Year to one and all. As we reflect on 2020, I hope that the year’s unprecedented challenges were accompanied by moments that could...

working in India with sewing machine making masks

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January 15, 2021

New Year’s Message

Remembering the Year Gone By By: Shalini Sinha January 2021 2020 has come to an end. How time crawled while we were trapped in our homes,...

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COVID-19 Crisis Study January 13, 2021

Marty Chen and Laura Alfers’ blog for the OECD

A new social contract for informal workers: Bridging social protection and economic inclusion

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COVID-19 Crisis Study January 06, 2021

WIEGO in The Economist

“Someone from the public or the government doesn’t wake up one morning and think ‘Let’s think about the waste pickers’,” she says. “These...

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Fiscal Justice October 11, 2020

Microinsurance needed for low-income families in India, says new report

The insurance authority of India has made public a report that calls for the urgent implementation of changes that would expand microinsurance...

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