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Building Collective Power November 12, 2021Waste pickers in Tshwane (Pretoria) face displacement and loss of livelihoods as a result of evictions
WIEGO and its affiliates stand in solidarity with the 180 waste pickers in Mushroomville who were given notice of eviction on 15th November...
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Resource Documents
Women Informal Traders and Child Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from Accra, Durban and Nakuru
Key Points The public health measures taken to contain the pandemic coupled with the economic slowdown have significantly reduced women informal...
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COVID-19 Crisis Study March 17, 2021TV interview on lockdown’s impact on informal workers in South Africa
WIEGO’s Urban Policies Research Director, Caroline Skinner, spoke with eNCA’s Uveka Rangappa on March 16 about the impact of...
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Worker Story
Romilla Chetty, the first woman in her family to run the vendor business in South Africa
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Mujeres líderes
English Français Para el Día Internacional de las Mujeres, WIEGO reunió las voces de mujeres líderes cuyas organizaciones dieron...
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Building Collective Power March 05, 2021
Women Leaders
Español Français For International Women’s Day, WIEGO amplified the voices of women leaders whose organizations stepped up...
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COVID-19 Crisis Study February 23, 2021Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19
This joint WIEGO and UN Women advocacy initiative gives an in-depth account of the experiences of women informal workers in South Africa...
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Policy Briefs
Informal Work in South Africa and COVID-19: Gendered Impacts and Priority Interventions
In South Africa, informal workers in general, and women informal workers in particular, have been disproportionately hard hit by measures...
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Advocacy Materials
Mesures visant à lutter contre la violence basée sur le genre dans le contexte de la pandémie mondiale
In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based...
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Advocacy Materials
Medidas para hacer frente a la violencia de género en medio de la pandemia mundial
In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based...
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