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  • Advocacy Materials

    World Cup for All: A Portrait of Street Vendors’ Organizations in the World Cup Host Cities in Brazil

    This report is an English summary of a Portuguese research study StreetNet International commissioned on organizations of informal traders...

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  • Project Reports

    Technology and the Future of Work: Experiences of informal waste workers and street vendors in Dhaka, Lima, and Nairobi

    “Through  a  year-long  project  supported  by  the  Rockefeller  Foundation, Practical  Action  and  WIEGO  (Women  in  Informal ...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Argentina Law: Ley No. 1166 de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

    Updates to the laws governing street vending on public roads in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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  • Presentations

    Challenges of informal employment in Mexico City

    The Round Table “Informal Employment in Mexico City: Challenges and Perspectives 2017” was organized on February 16, 2017 as...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Diseño para aseadores CDMX – Equipo 6

    Designs prepared for Mexico City Shoe Shiner’s Union by a group of design students from Mexico City’s IberoAmerican University.  ...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Ley No. 29419

    Ley que regula la actividad de los Recicladores en Perú

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  • Presentations

    Fortaleciendo la voz de los trabajadores informales en las decisiones de política social en América Latina: Programa México – resultados del proyecto

    Programa WIEGO: Fortaleciendo la voz de los trabajadores informales en las decisiones de política social en América Latina

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  • Legal Instruments

    Law: Domestic Work Employees – Labor Standards (California)

    Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights for the state of California

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  • Legal Instruments

    A Guide to Street Vending in New York City

    This poster is a guide that outlines the complicated and sometimes unfair rules that govern street vending in New York City.

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  • Presentations

    Studies in “Non-Standard” Employment in Canada

    Presentation for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University ...

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