Region: Arab States

Garbage

(Turkish with English subtitles)A documentary about the lives of waste pickers in  a garbage dump in Turkey. 

How human traffickers trap women into domestic servitude

More than three million women are forced into servitude as domestic workers every year, often lured to other countries in the Persian Gulf...

Charter for a Street-Trading Friendly African City: Steps that African Mayors can take to embrace inclusive and sustainable street trading management

Informal trading is a prevalent reality in African cities, still marked by high degree of poverty, unemployment and inequality, and affected...

Kingdom of Bahrain, Labour Law No. 36, 2012

This law comes in line with internataional standards and aligns Bahrains domestic law with several of the arab and international labour treaties...

Chartre pour une approche inclusive du commerce de rue dans les villes Africaines: Démarche à adopter par les Maires Africains pour une gestion inclusive et durable du commerce de rue

Le commerce informel est une réalité incontournable dans les villes africaines, marquées par un niveau élevé de pauvreté, de chômage et d’inégalités...

Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 — The Domestic Workers’ Convention

Middle East Institute – Egypt’s Informal Economy

This article was written by Yasmin El-Rifae, a guest contributor to MEI.

Seu kit de ferramentas para a C189 da OIT a Convenção das trabalhadoras e dos trabalhadores domésticos.

A WIEGO e a IDWF entraram em uma parceria para escrever este kit de ferramentas para apoiar as afiliadas da IDWF em seus esforços para tornar...

GlobalRec-Will Waste Pickers in Turkey Join the Unemployed Army?

This blog post was written by Serter Oran, a research fellow and PhD Candidate at the University of Ankara, Turkey.

Structural Integration of the Informal Sector in the Municipal Solid Waste Management in Tunisia – Expert Meeting

A summary of this meeting is available and more information about the project is available on the Sweep-Net website.