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Date: September 12th, 2023 Time: 9:00 EDT | 14:00 BST | 16:00 EAT | 18:30 IST Register to attend! Urban planning plays a crucial role in creating services and infrastructure that support the needs and well-being of young children and their families. Cities present important challenges for the...
Key Points Outworkers in Australia’s Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industry are known to be particularly vulnerable to exploitation and unsafe working practices. Legislative reform took place between 2007 and 2013 when Australia had a progressive Labor government, culminating in the passage...
Challenges and strategies to increase social protection financing for workers in informal employment
This briefing note reviews the current debates about strategies to increase financing for social protection, which is essentially to enable the extension of coverage to workers in informal employment. The social protection financing gap is described and different approaches to close the gap are...
This brief examines data on employment in El Salvador for 2019 to 2021 and analyzes the changes in employment.
Date: August 29th, 2023 Time: 9.00 Brazil / 14.00 South Africa Duration: 90 minutes Languages: Portuguese, English and French Register to attend! The closure of large-scale open dumps poses a key challenge to waste-picker livelihoods. Working alongside worker organizations, WIEGO has helped develop...
This report draws on interviews with street vendors and market traders in nine cities – Accra, Ghana; Ahmedabad, India; Bangkok, Thailand; Delhi, India; Durban, South Africa; Lima, Peru; Mexico City, Mexico; New York, USA; and Pleven, Bulgaria – in mid-2020 and again with the same workers in mid...
Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste pickers, should also be the subjects of labour law. WIEGO's panel at the Labour Law Research Network aimed to challenge this.
This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human rights violations and to draw to this the attention of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the highest forum on human rights protection in the...
India’s welfare boards have existed for more than half a century and represent a unique approach to ensuring the sustainable and fair financing for informal workers’ social protection. Based on a review of the literature and interviews with workers, employers, government officials and experts, this...
The Association of Waste Pickers Bokk Diom demands that Senegal’s government keeps its promises of inclusion as the closure of West Africa's largest dump, Mbeubeuss, gathers pace. WIEGO’s local specialist, Maguette Diop, explains that the survival of thousands of workers and their families is more...
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.