Region: Asia & the Pacific

Street vending in times of COVID-19 (English)

Thai: Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia

Mesures visant à lutter contre la violence basée sur le genre dans le contexte de la pandémie mondiale

In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based...

Medidas para hacer frente a la violencia de género en medio de la pandemia mundial

In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based...

Measures to tackle gender-based violence amid the global pandemic

In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based...

Informal Workers See a Long Road to Recovery Ahead — Unless Governments Act

Data from the first round of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study in 12 cities point to three common patterns across...

SEWA & COVID 19: A Holistic Response

The COVID 19 pandemic-cum-lockdown in India have impacted the physical, mental and economic health of SEWA’s members and other informal workers...

Domestic Workers, Risk and Social Protection in Nepal

Most domestic workers in Nepal are employed in live-out arrangements with multiple employers while others, many of them adolescent girls,...

The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...

SEWA Gujarat – Salt-Pan Farmers