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В данной информационной записке основное внимание уделяется причинам и последствиям насилия, с которыми сталкиваются неформально занятые работники четырех секторов: надомного труда, домашнего труда, уличной торговли и сбора мусора.
Two domestic workers from India share their experiences about the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on their work and lives, the difficulties they have faced and the support they have received. They explain that, even today, as the lockdown has been gradually lifted across India, domestic workers...
Cómo hacerle frente a la COVID-19: las trabajadoras del hogar de SEWA durante la pandemia y más allá
Dos trabajadoras domésticas de India comparten su experiencia sobre el impacto de la COVID-19 y el aislamiento obligatorio en su trabajo y en sus vidas, las dificultades que han enfrentado y el apoyo que recibieron. Explican que, hasta el día de hoy, aunque el aislamiento obligatorio se ha ido...
Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey findings show that the majority of domestic workers earn a wage that is insufficient to cover their basic needs. This policy brief makes recommendations for...
Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey findings show that the majority of domestic workers earn a wage that is insufficient to cover their basic needs. This policy brief makes recommendations for...
WIEGO is joining the Global Day of Action for Care on 29 October 2020, calling on governments to invest in public health and care service as part of economic recovery plans to ensure job creation, fair wages, decent working conditions, and to close gender gaps in labour-force participation.
Worldwide, at least 67 million people are employed as domestic workers. Their work allows families living in those households to do their jobs, so domestic workers have a crucial role to play in keeping markets and economies working globally. Yet, as lockdown orders were imposed following the COVID...
En todo el mundo, al menos 67 millones de personas están empleadas como trabajadoras del hogar. Gracias a su labor, que permite que las familias que viven en esos hogares puedan continuar a su vez con sus propios trabajos, las trabajadoras del hogar desempeñan un rol crucial en mantener los mercados...
El documento de consulta de Wiego no.16 recopila la línea de tiempo de la lucha de las trabajadoras del hogar en México; más específicamente las acciones que el Centro de Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar (CACEH) y el Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores del Hogar (SINACTRAHO) han...
“It's very hard to see what the other end of this crisis is going to look like at the grassroots level, at the base of the economic pyramid,” WIEGO’s international coordinator Sally Roever said in an article published by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “Street vendors can go in the street, but...
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.