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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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  • Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 - The Domestic Workers’ Convention Toolkits and Guides

    Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 – The Domestic Workers’ Convention (Caribbean Region)

    WIEGO and the IDWF partnered to write this toolkit to support IDWF affiliates in their efforts to make C189 real for domestic workers. The...

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  • A human-powered vehicle called ‘Zorro’. Credit: Federico Parra, 2016 Statistical Briefs

    The Collection of Data on Waste Pickers in Colombia, 2012-2022

    This brief describes the unprecedented census of waste pickers that took place in 2012 in Bogota, as mandated by rulings of the Constitutional...

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