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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Project

    Waste Pickers and Human Rights

    ILO estimates indicate that close to 20 million people worldwide earn their living from recycling waste. Many work as waste pickers who gather...

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    El Caso de Montevideo, Uruguay

    Este reporte elaborado La investigadora contratada en el marco del Proyecto de reconocimiento de la situación de derechos humanos de los...

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  • HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19 Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 11, 2020

    Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

    Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

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  • HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19 Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 11, 2020

    Innovación y unidad: Cómo se están adaptando las personas trabajadoras en domicilio al mundo de la COVID-19

    Las personas trabajadoras en domicilio están entre las más invisibilizadas y descuidadas del mundo, y están demasiado familiarizadas con...

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  • HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19 Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 11, 2020

    Innovation et unité : Comment les travailleuse·eur·s à domicile s’adaptent au monde de la COVID-19

    Les travailleurs à domicile sont parmi les travailleuse•eur•s les plus invisibles et les plus négligé•e•s du monde, et connaissent trop bien...

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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 28, 2020

    In COVID-19 Crisis, El Sindicato Unico de la Aguja (SUA) in Uruguay is making masks

    Conversation held on April 23, 2020 between Flor de Liz Feijoo (SUA General Secretary) and Laura Morillo (ORP WIEGO). All images and videos...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

    This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

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  • Presentations

    The Future of the Domestic Workers’ Movement

    Speech presented by Dan Gallin at the International Domestic Workers’ Federation, Founding Congress which was held in Montevideo, Uruguay...

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Collective Bargaining and Domestic Workers in Uruguay

    Through the collective bargaining process, the Sindicato Unico de Trabajadoras Domsticas (SUTD) has been able to win rights including a seniority...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Mesa-debate “Clasificadores y derecho a la ciudad”

    This video is in Spanish. Lucia Fernandez, Waste Picker Sector Advisor for WIEGO, provides an urban perspective on the displacement of waste...

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