StreetNet presentation to Plenary
Juliana Afari-Brown, Vice-President of StreetNet, will make an intervention in the plenary session of the ILC commenting on the opening address of the Director-General on labour migration. 5 June 2014 StreetNet is an international federation of 52 organisations of street vendors, informal market vendors and hawkers in 46 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and […]
Azerbaijan Regional Workshop on Social Solidarity Economy
by Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Organizer On April 23 – 24, 2014, in the framework of the FLOW Project (Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women), a fund that has been created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands to improve the position of women in developing countries, Federation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan Xhidmat-ISH, […]
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NEPAL. Efforts to relocate street vendors hamstrung by lack of data. My Republica (10 May 2014). TANZANIA. MPs plead for hawkers, ‘mama lishe’ vendors. Daily News (9 May 2014). INDIA. HC tells govt to form panel for protecting street vendors. TNN (6 May 2014). USA. Street vendors try again to sell cooked food from pushcarts. […]
Decent Work Day – 1 May 2014, ILO statement
Tens of thousands of people in Cambodia and around the region are coming together today to mark May 1st. Their aspirations and concerns are legitimate and based on unquestionable universal values. They firmly and rightly believe that quality of work and the respect for fundamental principles and rights at work are a source of personal […]
Sadness, Grief, and Uncertainty… Millions lost with huge fire in the Terminal Market, Guatemala City
GUATEMALA CITY. The largest wholesale market in Central America, with over 4,500 tenants, was largely destroyed by a devastating fire on 25 March 2014, shattering the lives of thousands of self/employed vendors and their families. It is estimated that about 3,000 people visit it daily since it is possible to find variety of products and […]
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TRINIDAD & TOBAGO. Street vending gets city OK. Trinidad Express Newspapers (30 March 2014) by Camille Bethel. INDIA. Must bring in reforms in police structure: Rahul Gandhi. Firstpost (30 March 2014). KUWAIT. Hawkers, Residency Law Violators Among 102 Detained. Arab Times (29 March 2014). NEPAL. Govt ignored us, say street vendors. Kathmandu Post (26 March […]
"Transitioning from the Informal to Formal Economy" Africa Regional Consultation Workshop – A way forward for Informal workers
The African Regional Consultation Workshop was held on the 13 -14 March at the COSATU house in Johannesburg. The intention of the workshop was to prepare informal workers on the discussions that will take place at the International Labour Conference (ILC) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in May-June this year. The workshop was organised […]
Miranda Mandaria discusses women`s rights in informal sector of Georgia
Ms. Miranda Mandaria, the chairwoman of Self-Employed and Commercial workers union and GTUC Woman Network Coordinator, Eter Matureli discuss women`s rights in the program “geography of labor”. They talk about the difference between the public sector employed woman and their labor rights and the informal sector employed woman labor rights. Although the changes which were […]
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EGYPT. The Street Vendors’ Capital. Asharq Al-Awsatt (2 March 2014) by Moataz Abdel Moneim. INDONESIA. Street vendor relocation back to square one. Jakarta Post (1 March 2014). INDIA. The Street Vendors Bill. Opportunities and Challenges. EPW (28 February 2014) by Nita Mathur. KENYA. Kenya: Hawkers to Be Resettled in Three Major Markets. All Africa (28 […]
