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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Dogtown Redemption

    A documentary trailer that tells the story of Americans who survive by recycling trash in Oakland, CA.   Visit the Dogtown Redemption website Redemption...

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  • Legal Instruments

    United-States-of-America-Law: Hawaii Act 248 – An Act Relating to Labor (Domestics) (United States)

    Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights for the state of Hawaii.

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  • Legal Instruments

    The Legal Regulation of Street Vendors in New York City

    This paper looks into the legal status of street vendors in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s and illustrates that despite persistent...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Massachusetts Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

    Webpage for the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in the state of Massachusetts, with links to multilingual resource pages.

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  • Mar 11 2019

    63rd Commission on the Status of Women

    • March 11, 2019 - March 22, 2019

    CSW63 UN Headquarters, New York Representatives of UN Member States, civil society organizations and UN entities gathered at the UN headquarters...

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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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    Livelihoods June 04, 2019

    Five Must-reads on Including Street Vendors in Public Spaces

    Street vendors are facing unprecedented challenges in cities across the globe, despite global development goals calling for more economically...

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    Livelihoods April 28, 2019

    ¿Dónde están las ciudades inclusivas? Vendedores y vendedoras ambulantes en todo el mundo se enfrentan a hostilidades crecientes

    El equipo de Políticas Urbanas de WIEGO analizó en los últimos 18 meses nuevos artículos sobre venta ambulante en seis países para comprender...

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    Livelihoods September 04, 2015

    Wither the “Labor” in Labor Day?

    For many of us, the word “informal employment” conjures up images of street vendors, rickshaw drivers, or casual laborers in agriculture—all...

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