Region: Asia & the Pacific

VIDEO: Bangladesh leather industry exposes workers to toxic hazards

From PBS NewsHour: “Rotting animal hides and toxic chemicals. That’s the stench emanating from a neighborhood in Bangladesh’s...

Community Sanitation and Recycling Organization (CSARO)

From the website: Community Sanitation and Recycling Organization (CSARO) is a Cambodian Non-Governmental organization (NGO) established...

Wages and Informal Labour Markets in India: Whither Premiums on Human Capital Investments?

Beijing workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”

A Measurement of Vulnerability in Transition Labor Market

Delhi workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”

Documentation of Non-standard Employment in Japan

Presentation for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University ...

Women, Work and Peace

This presentation includes two speeches given on the occasion of Ela Bhatt’s receipt of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament...

Organizing Informal Waste Pickers in Bengaluru, India

This case study reviews efforts to organize waste pickers in Bangalore city, Southern India by a network of non-governmental organizations.  ...

Case Study: Mrs Buala Kaen-kwang (Gem Cutting)

Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers

According to Verite Research: This is a video that was developed for a concert in aid of Domestic Workers in Sri Lanka. Domestic work is...

Regional Update for HomeNet Southeast Asia – Global Conference on HBWs 2015

Presentation from the 2005 Global Conference on Home-Based Workers (HBW) organized by WIEGO and HomeNet South Asia (HNSA).