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Organizing Briefs
The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan
This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...
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Policy/Position Documents
Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City
Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City WIEGO organized a dialogue on economic recovery for the informal...
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News
November 08, 2022Mirai Chatterjee pays tribute to Ela Ramesh Bhatt
Many an epithet has been used to celebrate her—the gentle revolutionary, the Mahatma of “shramjeevi” (working) women, and more. For us, her SEWA (Self-Employed...
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News
November 08, 2022Renana Jhabvala pays tribute to Ela Ramesh Bhatt
Ela Ramesh Bhatt has been called a gentle revolutionary. Both her ideas and her actions were revolutionary. She gave the world the path with...
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Resource Documents
Home-Based Work during the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities
In both mid-2020 and mid-2021, WIEGO assessed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific groups of informal workers and their households,...
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Access to Public Space October 31, 2022Subverting Master Planning to Advance Informal Worker Interests: Lessons from Delhi
Heeding the United Nations call to share transformative approaches to local action on World Cities Day, Focal Cities Coordinator Jenna Harvey...
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Policy Briefs
Claiming Space for Informal Work in Master Planning: Reflections from a People’s Campaign in Delhi
Master plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of...
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Law & Informality Insights
A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers
This publication – A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers...
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Resource Documents
The Struggle for the Soul of Bhadra Chowk – A Heritage Plaza or Heritage Market? A Case Study from Ahmedabad, India
This case study documents the history of the struggle by street vendors, with SEWA’s support, to retain their right to vend – and their natural...
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Research Reports
SEWA Sangini Cooperative: Providing Child Care for Women Informal Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India
The SEWA Sangini Cooperative provides child-care services for SEWA members – all women workers in informal employment – through 11 centres...
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