VIDEO: C189: Conventional Wisdom
This documentary film by the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) illustrates how women from around the world organized within...
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Interview with Caroline Skinner on Street Vendors and Public Space for WIEGO Blog
Caroline Skinner, WIEGO’s Urban Research Director, discusses the launch of our new e-book, Street Vendors and Public Space: Essential...
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The Real World of Work
Sally Roever, WIEGO’s International Coordinator, talks about the 61% of workers worldwide who make their living in the informal economy...
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Video Depicting Waste Pickers in Paris in 1929
A video depicting waste pickers in Paris in 1929.
Link: www.mheu.org/fr/chiffonniers/zone.aspx
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VIDEO: Interview with Paulina Paucar Peña (Peru–FEDEVAL/CUT)
In this interview, Paulina Paucar Peña, who sells clothes at a market in Lima, tells us how the trade union organising campaign has helped...
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Waste Pickers: The Invisible Environmentalists
A look at how CHF earned the trust of a wary community to help waste pickers advocate for themselves and overcome stigma about their profession.
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The ILO calls for tough legal protection for domestic workers
This report includes a live interview with Martin Oelz.
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Otherwise – National Public Radio
In this podcast, WIEGO’s Urban Policies Program Director, Caroline Skinner, shares information about WIEGO and about the informal economy,...
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Substitution of Animal Traction Vehicles in Bogota
In 2003, the national transit code sought to eradicate animal traction vehicles or animal pulled carts that would have affected hundreds...
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