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Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing is a global 🌎 network focused on empowering workers in the informal economy & securing their livelihoods
Everywhere!
Joined June 2010
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Learn more about how street vendors are organizing to resist oppression ⤵️. 3/3.
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Climate change impacts threaten street vendor livelihoods 2024 was the hottest year on record. As outdoor workers, street vendors experience some of the harshest impacts of climate change. This year,...
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🏢 Corporations continue to use street vendors as distributors in hard-to-reach markets, but fail to provide support or social protections;. 💸 New efforts have been made to limit and tax vendors. 2/3.
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WIEGO and @Streetnet1 monitored global street vending trends in 2024:. 🔥 Climate change impacts threaten street vendor livelihoods;. 🛑 Violent eviction campaigns by high-profile politicians in African cities;. 1/3
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RT @HomeNetInt: 🌍✨ This week, HNI and @WIEGOGLOBAL are on a mission across the EU to build alliances and advocate for why #HRDD legislation….
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💬 What is social dialogue, and how can it help include workers in informal employment in #SocialProtection schemes?. Find out more in our latest Social Protection Podcast episode with @cyrusafa, @urasevilla and Jane Barret 👉
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Most cities are designed for the elite. We cannot build climate-resilient cities without acknowledging & improving the working & living spaces of workers in informal employment ✊ . Hear from WIEGO's Asia Strategic Lead and Home-based Workers Sector Specialist, @ShaliniWIEGO ⤵️
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🌆 What does an inclusive city mean for workers in informal employment dealing with the effects of the #ClimateCrisis?. Hear from @SkinnerCaroline on how workers are adapting to extreme weather, what is the role of local authorities and more.
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RT @HomeNet_SAsia: It is important to ensure that #HomeBasedWorkers' living quarters are safe, comfortable & productive spaces.We ensure th….
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Con la acción colectiva, las #cooperativas pueden transformar la gestión de residuos de una ciudad y @mteargentina es un gran ejemplo. 🇦🇷✊. Descubre en nuestro blog cómo se han organizado para atender las necesidades de lxs recicladorxs en Buenos Aires:
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In this episode of WIEGO’s Social Protection Podcast, @cyrusafa explores the connection between governance & social protection. We are joined by Tony Roberts & Gbenga Sesan to discuss concerns and opportunities around digitization. 👉
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All workers have the right to high-quality, affordable & accessible care services. The @UTEPOficial & @MTEargentina Centros Infantiles de Recreación y Aprendizaje should be supported!. We speak about the unique model in our Social Protection Podcast:🎙️
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Workers in informal employment are excluded from #LabourLaws altogether or are not completely protected ⚖️. How can we use human rights as a tool in our efforts to extend labour protections to workers in informal employment?. @AllisonCorkery explains:
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How has technology been used to include workers in informal employment in #SocialProtection systems? 🤔. @phat_controller from @IDS_UK & @ADRNorg and Gbenga Sesan from @ParadigmHQ answer that & other questions in a new podcast episode. 🎙️ Listen now:
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¿Dónde se origina el argumento de que la protección social propicia más informalidad?👇. Eduardo González & Florian Juergens escriben para @nexosmexico sobre la literatura no probatoria de ese supuesto y sobre la urgencia de proteger a lxs más vulnerables
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Para las personas excluidas de los sistemas de protección social, las consecuencias son devastadoras. A pesar de ello, las personas responsables de diseñar políticas públicas todavía ven con recelo...
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Why can understanding supply chains improve the livelihoods of African #CraftMakers?. Spoiler alert: knowledge & union are power ➡️ power can lead to fairer negotiations for terms of trade or access to markets. ✊🏿 Read our blog by @HomeNetInt's Edwin Bett:
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👉 Learn about ways in which a human rights lens can complement labour laws in the effort to extend labour protections to workers in informal employment: 2/2.
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Anniversaries are a good moment for pause and reflection. In this case, we might ask why – more than three quarters of a century later – these rights remain largely out of reach for the 2 billion...
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Freedom of association is a fundamental labour right that enables workers to build associational & collective bargaining power✊. By contrast, human rights contain principles such as public participation & civic engagement, that are much broader. 1/2
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Our wishlist for 2025? 📜🤔. Workers in informal employment continue to unite and organize to face their collective struggles 🎆.
The world is in chaos and we feel it and see it every day. But our collective struggle in 2024 proved only through unity & solidarity will we survive. We’re not backing down. Together we’re ready to take on the New Year and create the change we deserve. 🚀.
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