Region: Asia & the Pacific

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006

This document contains an Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India...

Informal Workers Narrative Discussion

SWaCH

Solid Waste Collection and Handling or, officially, the SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit, Pune. SWaCH Coop is India’s first wholly-owned...

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”

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”

Tea Vending in India – Informal Economy and Urbanization

A personal account of a tea vendor, his family, and the Radisson Hotel in Ahmedabad.

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....

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...

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...

VIDEO: Occupational Health & Safety of Informal Women Workers in India

Learn more about: WIEGO’s Occupational Health & Safety Project SEWA