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Jul 24 2017
Workshop: Quality Public Child Care for all Informal Workers
- July 24, 2017
- Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico In the context of the recent introduction of the “right to care” to the Mexico City Constitution, WIEGO and OXFAM Mexico...
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Sep 22 2016
UN HLP Report Presentation to Secretary-General
- September 22, 2016
During the 71st session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the UN High-Level Panel for Women’s Economic Empowerment (UN...
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Building Collective Power September 10, 2019En temps de crise, les organisations de base réinventent la pratique démocratique
Aux quatre coins du monde, les normes démocratiques sont menacées et les conséquences à long terme s’annoncent graves. Les travailleuses...
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Building Collective Power September 10, 2019In times of crisis, grassroots organizations re-imagine democratic practice
Democratic norms are under threat worldwide. Informal workers and other marginalized groups are witnessing the reversal of hard-fought wins...
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Global Movement of Home-Based Workers
History of this Movement Home-based workers approached SEWA. We realized that many ’housewives’ are workers, but are invisible – even for...
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Victories for Domestic Workers in Mexico City
Domestic workers in Mexico achieved significant victories and gained profile worldwide in December 2018.
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Street Vendors in Lima, Peru
Every formalization process benefits those who have money. The ones who are left behind are the ones who cannot pay. – Gloria Solórzano,...
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Gender and Waste
A collaborative project involving waste pickers in Latin America has shed light on the multiple levels of discrimination that women waste...
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Voice & Leadership
Strengthening the Voice and Leadership of Informal Women Workers Around Social Policy Issues This project built a sustained link between...
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Peru
OHS Project in PeruIn Lima, the OHS project’s team – Anita Luján and her colleagues from the Consorcio por la Salud, Ambiente y Desarollo...
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