All posts in Asia & the Pacific
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Audiovisual Materials
VIDEO: Why Slum Dwellers in South Africa Are Collecting Data About their Communities
By 2030, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Next City’s journalists were in Surabaya, Indonesia, talking...
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Legal Instruments
Home Workers Protection Act B.E.2553 (2010)
This legal document outlines the provisions of Thailand’s ground-breaking legislation for home-based workers: The Home Workers Protection...
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Legal Instruments
Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act, 1998
This Act was enacted in order to alleviate poverty by empowering Filipino families to meet their needs by actively pursuing asset reform...
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Audiovisual Materials
KKPKP’s Documentary
The film features KKPKP and the development of SwaCH, a recycling cooperative in Pune, India.View this movie at cultureunplugged.com
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External Blog Posts/Op Eds
Are We Counting What Counts?
Blog post by Renu Singh of Young Lives about the UN HLP Consultation held at SEWA in August 2016.
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Legal Instruments
Domestic Workers Welfare and Social Security Act 2010
This Act seeks to provide for the portection of the welfare of domestic workers in India to protect them from exploitation.
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Legal Instruments
Municipal and Police Laws for Patna, Calcutta, Bhubaneshwar, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad
This document outlines street vendor laws for Patna, Calcutta, Bhubaneshwar, Bangalore, Mumbai and Ahmedabad
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Audiovisual Materials
Ep 3: Domestic Workers in the city
“Domestic Workers in the city” is the third episode in a radio series on informal workers in Delhi, produced by WIEGO and originally...
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Presentations
Session 1 – Labor Market Reform and Employment Restructuring in China
materials from China-India Labour Market Research Design Workshop, 2007
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Presentations
Measuring Informal Employment in Urban China
Beijing workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”
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