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  • Informational Article

    Informal Workers and the Law

    WIEGO works with four main occupational groups of informal workers: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers....

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  • News
    Building Collective Power August 02, 2019

    C177: The Homework Convention – It’s Time for Action!

    A homeworker in Thailand prepares an order. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ReportageOn 20 June 1996, homeworkers around the world scored...

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  • Informational Article

    Home-Based Workers Organizing

    Without strong organizations, home-based workers cannot access information about employment opportunities, workers’ rights, changing...

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  • Project

    Habitat III

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  • SV Accra Jonathan Torgovnik Project

    Informal Economy Monitoring Study

    A 10-city study on three continents, led by WIEGO, offered insight into the grounded reality of waste pickers, street/market traders and...

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  • Worker Story

    Sewing a Better Future: Sarita, Home-Based Worker, Nepal

    For 11 years, Sarita Adhikary has been working with the Women Skill Development Organization in Nepal. She still vividly remembers her first...

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  • Garment worker in India (photo courtesy of HNSA) Page

    Garment Workers

    The growing global garment industry exemplifies the challenges of global manufacturing: low wages, “flexible” (or no) contracts...

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  • Informational Article

    Home-Based Workers and the Law

    Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from in or around their own homes. Although largely invisible, they are engaged...

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    Definition of Home-Based Workers

    Statistical Definition This statistical definition of home-based workers was developed by the Independent Group on Home-Based Workers in...

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  • Post
    Global Advocacy and Negotiations July 30, 2019

    New international labour standard will help protect vulnerable workers from violence and harassment

    When the 2019 International Labour Conference voted to adopt Convention 190 on Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190),...

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