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Livelihoods October 05, 2018Q&A: WIEGO’s New Urban Policies Director Talks Migration, 21st-century Cities and What Inspires Her Research
This week, we sit down with WIEGO’s new Urban Policies Programme Director, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, to learn more about her background and...
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Livelihoods October 01, 2018Senegal’s Dump Upgrading Doesn’t Have to Displace Waste Pickers
The theme of World Habitat Day 2018 is municipal solid waste management and creating “waste wise cities.” In this article, WIEGO’s Waste...
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Future of Work July 25, 2018How the Draft WDR 2019 Got it Wrong: Rethinking and “Relinking” Social Protections for the Future of Work
The World Bank’s recently released draft of the World Development Report (WDR) 2019 makes a controversial call to delink important social...
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Livelihoods July 18, 2018Informal workers and taxes: What “tax justice” looks like from below
A growing tax justice movement has been exposing the shadowy ways in which elites and large trans-national corporations often avoid paying...
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Livelihoods June 21, 2018For Mayors: A Five-Step Guide to including Street Vendors in Global Cities
By Carlin Carr
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Livelihoods June 19, 2018From Mozambique to Mexico, Domestic Workers are Fighting for their Rights — and Telling their Stories
Domestic workers — those who cook, clean, sweep, and child-mind in private homes across the globe — face unusually challenging circumstances...
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Livelihoods June 15, 2018What’s Changed for Domestic Workers since C189? Our Legal Team Unpacks the Progress
16 June 2011 was a momentous day for domestic workers around the globe. After a long, worker-led struggle, the International Labour Organization...
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Livelihoods May 27, 2018Workplace Violence and Harassment: Informal Workers Also Need Protection
By Karin Pape & Leslie Vryenhoek In city streets and markets across the Global South, street vendors have little protection from harassment,...
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Livelihoods May 14, 2018Mobile Money for Member Dues: Can technology transform worker organizations?
In this article, our Organization and Representation Programme Director, Jane Barrett, tells us about an innovative mobile money dues collection...
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Livelihoods May 08, 2018“Take away these tolls”: How Accra’s poorest market workers got their wages back
By Carlin CarrAccra’s colorful, bustling markets run on the back-breaking labour of some of the city’s poorest and most vulnerable. Goods...
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