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  • Policy Briefs

    Impactos das mudanças climáticas e estratégias de adaptação: Experiências de catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis do Brasil

    Principais conclusões: Experiências com eventos climáticos sérios: Muitas catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis (91%) vivenciaram,...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Climate-Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies: Waste Pickers’ Experiences from Brazil

    From 2022 to 2023, WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, in collaboration with the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, led an exploratory...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    The Impact of COVID-19 on Employment in Mexico, 2020-2023

     

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  • Organizing Briefs

    ‘Whose Law? Our Law!’: Critical Reflections on Legalization, Social Dialogue and Street Vendors’ Organizing in São Paulo

    Key Points The institutionalization of social dialogue is an important step towards more just regulation of informal vending, but alone it...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Workers in Informal Employment in El Salvador: A Statistical Profile, 2019-2021

    This brief examines data on employment in El Salvador for 2019 to 2021 and analyzes the changes in employment.

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    Waste Pickers and Human Rights in Latin America

    This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human...

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  • Resource Documents

    Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Analyzing the Implementation of C189 in Latin America and the Caribbean

    This Resource Document examines the measures that 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries have taken towards implementing C189: Argentina,...

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  • Briefs

    Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals

    The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of...

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  • Jun 06 2023

    Livelihood Centred Public Space Innovations

    • June 6, 2023
    • Online

    Date: Tuesday June 6, 2023Time: 8:00 – 9:30 (EST)Duration: 90 minutesLanguage: English only

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  • 111th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) Thumbnail Jun 05 2023

    111th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC)

    • June 5, 2023 - June 16, 2023
    • ILO Headquarters
      Geneva

    111th Session of the International Labour Conference: A just transition towards sustainable and inclusive economies, and labour protection The...

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