7th October – Day of action
For decent work Once more, we celebrate World Day for Decent Work this October 7. Framed in a deep economic and financial crisis worldwide, which has served as a pretext to even more precarious working conditions, job losses, and degraded the lives of millions of people and forced them into poverty. On this date, the […]
World Day for Decent Work – 7 October
By César García Arnal – StreetNet Secretary Millions of people will be taking action on October 7 to stand up for their rights on this day. Street vendors and informal traders will also join the workers of the world in celebration of Decent Work Day and to engage in social dialogue with their local governments […]
FUTRAND rises as a phoenix
In an unfortunate coincidence, on the International Vendors Day 2012, the administrators of the Condominium Building where FUTRAND operated threw all our belongings to the street. Almost a year ago it was very sad to face reality of our belongings on the street, without headquarters, equipment and documents. Today we can say that with pride […]
National Seminar for the Association of street vendors, market vendors and street hawkers in DRC: Participants clearly defined Terms of Reference of the mandate given to Interim Committee for the creation of a National Alliance of Vendors
With the establishment of the Provisional Coordinating Committee, one can say that a significant milestone has been accomplished for the creation of the National Alliance of street vendors, informal market vendors and hawkers in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC). The seminar organised in Kinshasa in the DRC capital, which was held at the Rehabilitation Center […]
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INDIA. Street Vendors Bill to benefit all: Pawan Kumar Bansal. The Times of India (29 September 2013) by Deepak Yadav. INDONESIA. 200 Street Vendor Stalls on Jl. Palmerah Demolished. Berita Jakarta (28 September 2013). ANGOLA. Angolan journalists arrested and beaten by police. The Guardian (26 September 2013) by Roy Greenslade. ZIMBABWE. Zimbabwe: Informal Trade Is […]
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INDONESIA. 300 Street Vendors Relocated in SPBB Area Relocated . Berita Jakarta (15 September 2013). INDIA. Owning the streets. The Indian Express (13 September 2013) by Sharit K. Bhowmik. MALAWI. Meeting resolves to remove Malawi’s street vendors. BNL Times (12 September 2013) by Golden Matonga. INDIA. Implement national policy for hawkers, SC tells govt. Firstpost […]
Worker Experts’ Final Statement
Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Facilitating Transitions from the Informal to the Formal Economy (16-20 September 2013) The worker experts consider the conclusions of the 2002 General Discussion on the informal economy as an important starting point on which to further build the discussion. We note however that since 2002, several countries have developed interesting […]
Update on Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Facilitating Transitions from the Informal Economy to the Formal Economy
A tripartite meeting of experts on the facilitation of the transition from the informal to the formal economy is taking place this week in preparations for the meeting (2014) of the International Labour Conference, with a view to making a recommendation. In this regard, the President of StreetNet International, Oscar Silva together with representatives from […]
Inhabitants of Kiev (Ukraine) witness another barbaric demolition of working places of entrepreneurs
During the raid a small cafe and several shopping pavilions have been destroyed at the metro station "Lesnaya." Working entrepreneurs showed their permits. However, some of them reported that from recently the city authorities refused to renew the permit documents for the land use. Behind these actions of the authorities, the entrepreneurs see the order […]
Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Facilitating Transitions from the Informal Economy to the Formal Economy at the International Labour Conference
20 September 2013 A Tripartite Meeting of Experts will be held to serve as part of the preparatory work for the standard-setting item placed on the agenda of the 103rd Session (June 2014) of the International Labour Conference on facilitating transitions from the informal to the formal economy with a view to the elaboration of […]
