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Despite their essential contributions to society and high exposure to the virus, workers are often excluded from vaccine drives. A closer look at seven countries shows how worker organizations have secured vaccine access for their members over the past two years.
This World Day for Safety and Health at Work, WIEGO stands in solidarity with workers in informal employment across the globe who shoulder the burdens of health and livelihood risks. We give our unwavering support to those who struggle onwards to ensure accountability and to secure their right to...
Workers in informal employment experience frequent workplace exposure to a range of occupational health and safety risks. The climate crisis poses an additional, existential threat to workers – with catastrophic impacts on workers’ health and livelihoods.
The rhetoric of an easing COVID-19 pandemic obscures the array of occupational health and safety risks that the world’s informal workers still face and that have accumulated during the pandemic.
À medida que a gente se aproxima do final de 2021, bilhões de pessoas têm sido vacinadas contra a COVID-19 – sendo a vacinação amplamente considerada como a saída dessa pandemia que continua prejudicando os meios de subsistência no mundo todo. Ainda assim, a estratosférica desigualdade na...
As we near the end of 2021, billions of people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 – widely regarded as the best way out of this pandemic, which continues to disrupt livelihoods around the world. Yet, massive global inequity in vaccine distribution means that many more, including a huge number of...
Informal workers continue to face an accumulation of vulnerabilities which have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to COVID-19 vaccination for informal workers to address these vulnerabilities more than a year after the outbreak was declared a pandemic, is therefore undoubtedly an...
English Français En todo el mundo, más de dos mil millones de personas tienen un empleo informal. Lxs trabajadorxs en empleo informal siguen enfrentando un cúmulo de vulnerabilidades que se han agravado durante la pandemia de la COVID-19: la naturaleza precaria de su trabajo, el ambiente...
English Español Partout dans le monde, plus de deux milliards de personnes sont engagées dans le travail informel. Les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel continuent d’être confronté·e·s à une accumulation de vulnérabilités qui ont été exacerbées pendant la pandémie de la COVID-19 –la nature précaire...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.