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  • Advocacy Materials

    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...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    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...

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  • Legal Instruments

    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...

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  • Legal Instruments

    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...

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  • Report

    Reporte de síntesis y aprendizajes del intercambio de la Alianza de las Ciudades

    En agosto de 2016, WIEGO junto a su aliado local, la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá, organizó un intercambio de aprendizajes en Bogotá,...

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  • Report

    Minutas de La Mesa Redonda “El Empleo Informal en la Ciudad de México: Retos y Perspectivas 2017”

    La Mesa Redonda “El Empleo Informal en la Ciudad de México: Retos y Perspectivas 2017” fue organizada el 16 de febrero de 2017 como parte...

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  • Report

    Lista de participantes de La Mesa Redonda “El Empleo Informal en la Ciudad de México: Retos y Perspectivas 2017”

    La Mesa Redonda “El Empleo Informal en la Ciudad de México: Retos y Perspectivas 2017” fue organizada el 16 de febrero de 2017 como parte...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Second Regional Meeting of Home-based Worker Organizations and Supporters in Latin America

    This report on the Second Regional Meeting of Home-based Worker Organizations and Supporters in Latin America, Santiago de Chile is availablein...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Segundo Encontro Regional de Organizações de Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras Domiciliares e Apoiadores na América Latina

    Este informe sobre a Segundo Encontro Regional de Organizações de Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras Domiciliares e Apoiadores na América Latina,...

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  • Report

    Waste Pickers Without Frontiers

    Report of Conference Proceedings on the First International and Third Latin American Conference of Waste-Pickers Disponible en español aquí.Disponível...

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