All posts in Asia & the Pacific
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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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Audiovisual Materials
SWaCH
Solid Waste Collection and Handling or, officially, the SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit, Pune. SWaCH Coop is India’s first wholly-owned...
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Presentations
Social Protection in India: Issues and Challenges (Beijing presentation)
Beijing workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”
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Presentations
Social Protection in India: Issues and Challenges (Delhi presentation)
Delhi workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”
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Stories/Case Studies
Tea Vending in India – Informal Economy and Urbanization
A personal account of a tea vendor, his family, and the Radisson Hotel in Ahmedabad.
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Audiovisual Materials
A Beijing Recycler’s Life
This video follows recyclers in Beijing and shares the work they have been doing for 20 years. The video is in Chinese with English subtitles....
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Toolkits and Guides
TERRAVIVA: Informal Economy Street Vending in Asia
As described on the ILO website, this is “a special edition of the independent newspaper TERRAVIVA on an ILO theme seminar focusing...
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Toolkits and Guides
Chintan: No Child in Trash, Volume 1
On the first of this series of newsletters Chintan wrote “In this inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter, some basic facts about...
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