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  • Sally Roever News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study August 29, 2020

    COVID-19: What happens to women with low incomes after they lose their jobs?

    “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...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia (Khmer)

    Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Tungo sa Pagsaklaw sa Pangangalagang Pangkalusugan para sa Lahat para sa mga Manggagawa sa Bahay sa Timog-Silangang Asya

    Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

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  • Rebuilding Lives in Resettlements Worker Story

    Rebuilding Lives in Resettlements: The Story of Savita Ben

    Malavika Narayan July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary In a room full of strangers, Savita ben starts to tell her story, her voice strong,...

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  • Informal worker Iris Lamiorkor runs a snack stand at Kwame Nkrumah Circle Market. Unlike other vendors who sell during the day Page

    Social Protection Briefing Notes

    WIEGO has produced a series of briefs to analyze the Social Protection Responses to COVID-19, drawing from WIEGO’s database of social...

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  • Portrait of Marty Chen, WIEGO Senior Advisor News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study July 21, 2020

    Marty Chen in IDS Webinar on Informal Workers: What Can Be Done

    WIEGO Senior Advisor Marty Chen recently participated in an Institute of Development Studies webinar, “The COVID-19 crisis facing informal...

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  • Call for brands to extend one-time contribution to all garment workers during COVID-19 News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study July 20, 2020

    Call for brands to extend one-time contribution to all garment workers

    WIEGO, Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) and HomeNet South East Asia (HNSEA) 
demand that brands extend a one-time...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Joint Statement Garment Workers COVID-19

      En Español (PDF)

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Home-Based Workers in India: A Statistical Profile

    This statistical snapshot of India’s home-based workers offers data on the size of this workforce, age, sex, type of industry and more. Data...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis: A global picture of sudden impact and long-term risk

    In an immediate response to COVID-19, WIEGO conducted a rapid assessment to understand how the pandemic and the related public health measures...

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