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Fact sheet on domestic workers rights' under Brazil's domestic workers' law
Around the world, informal workers are forming cooperatives, pooling their energy, ideas and resources to gain mutual economic, political and social benefits. WIEGO supports this work through action-research projects, capacity-building among organizations, facilitating networking and solidarity, and...
SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit (known simply as SWaCH, which means “clean”) is a solid waste collection and handling cooperative. Initiated as a pilot project in 2005, it is the first cooperative wholly owned by self-employed waste pickers and waste collectors.
SEWA is a trade union of women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses, as more than 94 per cent of women in India’s labour force do. SEWA emerged in 1971 out of the women’s arm of the Textile Labourers’ Association. The organization’s first hurdle was to convince decision...
Recicla Ourinhos é uma cooperativa onde um número 80 de membros é contratado pelo município para fornecer serviços de coleta, avaliação, melhoria, e comercialização de resíduos sólidos recicláveis na cidade brasileira de Ourinhos.
Recicla Ourinhos is a cooperative whose 80 members are contracted by the municipality to provide services for collection, assessment, improvement and commercialization of recyclable solid wastes in the Brazilian city of Ourinhos.
African smallholder farmers fought for the right to organize, and in the 1950s, were finally allowed to promote and register cooperatives for cash crops such as coffee. The Machakos Co-operative Union Ltd. (MCU) was established in the 1960s in Kenya. Its original aim was to market coffee for...
In many cities in developing countries, informal employment accounts for the majority of employment. Data analysis suggests that informal work, rather than being the exception, is the dominant mode of work in most towns/cities in developing regions. It comprises one half to three quarters of non...
Fact Sheet Produced for the Rio+20 international conference in 2012, this fact sheet details how sectors within the informal economy are playing an important role in climate change mitigation and providing other environmental benefits.
Details of the MDG3-funded Fair Trade project in Mexico
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.