The Americas

The slow death of Ecuadorian Banana workers

Magali Marega and Jo Vervecken draw on in-depth interviews of farmworkers in the Ecuadorian Banana farms, showing the health hazards of working...

Reporte de Participante Nacional – Colombia

Taller de Estadísticas del Sector Informal en América Latina (OIT/WIEGO)

Domestic Workers Count Too: Implementing Protections for Domestic Workers: ITUC/UN Women Briefing Kit

Based on personal testimonies from Bolivia, the State of New York, USA, the Philippines and South Africa, the ITUC-UN Women briefing kit...

The Street Vendor Project

From the SVP website: The Street Vendor Project is a membership-based project with more than 1,500 active vendor members who are working...

Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Domestic Service

This final rule revises the duties that fall within the term companionship and the major effect is that more domestic service workers will...

Street Vendors Unite: Recommendations for Improving the Regulations on Street Vending in New York City

This paper outlines modest proposals for improving the regulations on street vending in New York City, developed with and on behalf of the...

Integrated Programme of Worker’s Health (PISAT), Institute of Public Health, Federal University of Bahia

The Integrated Programme of Worker’s Health (PISAT) forms part of the Federal University of Bahia’s Institute of Collective Health, which...

Landfill Harmonic

The movie trailer describes “Landfill Harmonic as an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay,...

VIDEO: Recicladores ante la destitución de alcalde Gustavo Petro

A raíz de toda la situación que afronta el alcalde Petro por el esquema de basuras, conocemos de procesos donde se solicita la nulidad del...

IEMS Handout