Protecting Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains: Evaluating The Rights-Based Approach
Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza buildings in Bangladesh in 2013, the decent work deficits in global supply chains have enjoyed...
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Protección de los y las trabajadoras a domicilio tercerizadas en las cadenas mundiales de suministro: evaluación del enfoque centrado en los derechos
Desde el trágico colapso, en 2013, de los edificios del Rana Plaza en Bangladés, las deficiencias en el respeto de los derechos fundamentales...
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Bangkok home-based workers find strength in numbers
Down a small alleyway off of a busy Bangkok road, a residential workshop the size of a small corner store rarely stops humming. The workers,...
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Five Case Studies that Illustrate Steps Toward an Inclusive City
Creating “inclusive cities” is a hot topic right now. Habitat III has just wound up in Quito, Ecuador – the UN’s urban conference that brought...
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“Our role has been to make the informal economy visible and give it validity”
Renana Jhabvala discusses the UN Secretary-General’s first-ever High-level Panel (UN HLP) for Women’s Economic EmpowermentRenana Jhabvala...
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Child care for women informal workers proves essential to earning power
By Rachel Moussié Women’s economic empowerment is a central feature of development debates today. A key focus is the economic and social...
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Achieving decent employment for all requires improving workers’ homes and livelihoods
WIEGO and Slum Dwellers International (SDI) are co-chairs of the Grassroots Partners Constituency Group of the General Assembly of Partners,...
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How home-based workers in Ahmedabad formed a union to improve their lives
By Carlin Carr In the first of a series of photo essays from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing (WIEGO) Carlin Carr...
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La dignidad reconquistada: Cómo las trabajadoras y trabajadores de fábrica tailandeses crearon una cooperativa basada en el trabajo digno
By Carlin Carr
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Conmemorando los 20 años de la histórica ley internacional sobre las trabajadoras y los trabajadores a domicilio
Recordando una tarjeta postal de Ginebra y reafirmando una campaña Shalini Sinha, Sector Specialist, Home-Based Workers
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