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Myrtle Witbooi was an inspirational, principled, respected and much loved domestic worker leader, in South Africa and internationally. She passed away on 16 January 2023. WIEGO and the thousands of domestic workers, trade unionists and others who crossed paths with Myrtle in the course of her life...
Ela Ramesh Bhatt, the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India, passed away on November 2, 2022. Known as the “gentle revolutionary”, Ela-ben (as she was affectionately known) is recognized around the world for her Gandhian values, visionary ideals, pioneering work, and quiet...
A Escola WIEGO tem seu início em um momento em que todos os quatro setores, ou seja, trabalhadorxs domésticxs, trabalhadorxs domiciliares, vendedorxs ambulantes e de mercado e catadorxs, se organizam globalmente para ter voz nas decisões políticas em prol dxs muitxs trabalhadorxs informais.
The WIEGO School starts at a time when all four sectors—domestic workers, home-based workers, street and market vendors, and waste pickers—have organized globally to have a voice in policy decisions for many workers in informal employment.
We, organizations of workers in informal employment across the world, call on governments at all levels to partner with us on relief. Informal work accounts for more than 61% of all global employment – some two billion workers – and in developing countries, we make up 90% of total employment...
Мы, организации неформально занятых работников по всему миру, призываем правительства всех уровней сотрудничать с нами в оказании помощи. На неформальную занятость приходится более 61% всей занятости в мире — около двух миллиардов работников, — а в развивающихся странах количество таких работников...
Twenty-five years ago today — on 18 April 1997 — WIEGO’s founders embarked on a journey to support women workers in the informal economy.
Three global networks of workers in the informal economy – HomeNet International (HNI), the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) and StreetNet International (SNI) – participated in the second part of the International Labour Conference (ILC) from 25 November to 10 December 2021, along...
A global, multi-city study by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) has found that informal workers in Accra are in crisis, earning far less in 2021 than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has responded to this crisis with...
WIEGO joins the Union of Informal Workers Associations (UNIWA) to call upon the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in Accra, Ghana to immediately stop, and make remedy for, forced evictions of vendors and informal workers. Thousands of workers in the capital have been targeted under an ongoing...
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.