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New Urban Agenda and perspectives for the street vendors in HABITAT III Conference

23 June 2016 By Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Media Officer The HABITAT III Conference, also known as the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development is going to be held in Quito, Ecuador, on 17-20 October 2016. Since the conference will bring together a large range of urban actors including local authorities, civil society, […]

IFWEA Meeting of the Executive Committee to discuss its Strategic Plan and Education Program

By Sibailly M. Douhoure 17 June, 2016 On 29 – 30 May, 2016 a Meeting of the Executive Committee of IFWEA took place in Gothenburg, Sweden. IFWEA – International Federation of Workers` Education Associations is the international organisation responsible for the development of workers` education. It brings together national and international trade unions, workers` education […]

5th Congress of Unión de Profesionales y Trabajadores Autónomos (UPTA) elects new leadership

7 June, 2016 The Fifth Congress of UPTA approved the Comprehensive Plan for the recovering of Self-Employment (Plan Integral para la Recuperación del Trabajo Autónomo- PIRTA) which includes an ambitious goal of generational replacement in the group. On May 19, UPTA, Affiliate of StreetNet International from Spain successfully held its fifth Congress. Pepe Álvarez, General […]

New Municipality Plan to relocate street vendors in El Salvador

Jose Herminio Díaz, FESTIVES Secretary General, a StreetNet Affiliate from El-Salvador introduces current changes for the street traders in his country. The Municipality Plan to reorder the city was launched on 20 April. The municipality said that vendors who were in the near of the National Palace will be relocated. Besides that, vendors of Plaza […]

StreetNet marks International Workers’ Day – 1 May, 2016

Happy International Workers’ DAY! International Workers Day, also known as Labour Day – is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on the 1st May! StreetNet Affiliates around the world mark this Day every year in different ways: from holding meetings to […]

StreetNet holds Negotiations and Strategy Course for the ZCIEA leaders in Harare, Zimbabwe

By Sibailly Douhoure, StreetNet Organizer StreetNet’s affiliate in Zimbabwe, ZCIEA benefited from a negotiations and strategy course which strengthened its capabilities and will help them in negotiations with the local municipal authorities in Harare and Chitungwiza. The activity was conducted in the framework of the project, financed by the Solidarity Center AFL-CIO. Twenty leaders in […]

Training Workshop on Organising from the Bottom up

By Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Organiser On the 23-25 and 28-30 March 2016, StreetNet International and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL), jointly ran a training workshop on organising from the bottom up for syndicates of workers in the informal economy in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City respectively. The workshop fell within the framework […]

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