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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

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Our wishlist for 2025? 📜🤔 Workers in informal employment continue to unite and organize to face their collective struggles 🎆

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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 HomeNet International's Edwin Bett: ow.ly/9s7Y50UyJRH

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 <a href="/HomeNetInt/">HomeNet International</a>'s Edwin Bett: ow.ly/9s7Y50UyJRH
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¿Dónde se origina el argumento de que la protección social propicia más informalidad?👇 Eduardo González & Florian Juergens escriben para Revista Nexos sobre la literatura no probatoria de ese supuesto y sobre la urgencia de proteger a lxs más vulnerables bit.ly/3W7I1K1

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How has technology been used to include workers in informal employment in #SocialProtection systems? 🤔 Migrating to @phatcontroller.bsky.social from Institute of Development Studies & African Digital Rights Network and Gbenga Sesan from Paradigm Initiative (PIN) answer that & other questions in a new podcast episode. 🎙️ Listen now: bit.ly/4fkf2vp

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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? Allison Corkery explains: bit.ly/49wZRwl

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?

<a href="/AllisonCorkery/">Allison Corkery</a> explains: bit.ly/49wZRwl
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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:shorturl.at/r5ulf 🎙️

All workers have the right to high-quality, affordable &amp; accessible care services.

The @UTEPOficial &amp; @MTEargentina Centros Infantiles de Recreación y Aprendizaje should be supported!

We speak about the unique model in our Social Protection Podcast:shorturl.at/r5ulf 🎙️
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In this episode of WIEGO’s Social Protection Podcast, Inimigo do Rei explores the connection between governance & social protection. We are joined by Tony Roberts & Gbenga Sesan to discuss concerns and opportunities around digitization. 👉 spoti.fi/3A19VAh

In this episode of WIEGO’s Social Protection Podcast, <a href="/cyrusafa/">Inimigo do Rei</a> explores the connection between governance &amp; social protection.

We are joined by Tony Roberts &amp; Gbenga Sesan to discuss concerns and opportunities around digitization.

👉 spoti.fi/3A19VAh
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Con la acción colectiva, las #cooperativas pueden transformar la gestión de residuos de una ciudad y MTE es un gran ejemplo. 🇦🇷✊ Descubre en nuestro blog cómo se han organizado para atender las necesidades de lxs recicladorxs en Buenos Aires: ow.ly/Alsc50UGopv

Con la acción colectiva, las #cooperativas pueden transformar la gestión de residuos de una ciudad y <a href="/mteargentina/">MTE</a> es un gran ejemplo. 🇦🇷✊

Descubre en nuestro blog cómo se han organizado para atender las necesidades de lxs recicladorxs en Buenos Aires: ow.ly/Alsc50UGopv
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It is important to ensure that #HomeBasedWorkers' living quarters are safe, comfortable & productive spaces.We ensure this through collaborations with affiliate organisations,assisting #HBWs to access government schemes, housing finance & more. Know more:hnsa.org.in/resource/mappi…

It is important to ensure that #HomeBasedWorkers' living quarters are safe, comfortable &amp; productive spaces.We ensure this through collaborations with affiliate organisations,assisting #HBWs to access government schemes, housing finance &amp; more. Know more:hnsa.org.in/resource/mappi…
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🌆 What does an inclusive city mean for workers in informal employment dealing with the effects of the #ClimateCrisis? Hear from Caroline Skinner on how workers are adapting to extreme weather, what is the role of local authorities and more.

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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, Shalini Sinha ⤵️

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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 Inimigo do Rei, Aura Sevilla and Jane Barret 👉 bit.ly/40xa2xX

💬 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 <a href="/cyrusafa/">Inimigo do Rei</a>, <a href="/urasevilla/">Aura Sevilla</a> and Jane Barret 👉 bit.ly/40xa2xX
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🌍✨ This week, HNI and WIEGO are on a mission across the EU to build alliances and advocate for why #HRDD legislation should include informal homeworkers! Their first stop: Berlin. Thank you to everyone who listened to the voices of home-based workers! 🙌 #CSDDD

🌍✨ This week, HNI and <a href="/WIEGOGLOBAL/">WIEGO</a> are on a mission across the EU to build alliances and advocate for why #HRDD legislation should include informal homeworkers! Their first stop: Berlin. Thank you to everyone who listened to the voices of home-based workers! 🙌 #CSDDD