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INDIA. “Sonia Bats for Street Vendors.” Deccan Herald (24 March 2012) ZAMBIA. “Street Vending Penalty Coming Soon, People Buying from Street Vendors to be Punished Too – Luo.” Lusaka Times (23 March 2012) USA. “Street Vendors Voice Concerns at Task Force Meeting.” Manhattan Times (21 March 2012) NIGERIA. “Why Street Trading Will Endure.” Business Day […]
Street vendors and informal traders on the move
2 April 2012 On Friday 30 March 2012, 45 organised street vendors and informal traders from all 9 provinces met in Mangaung to chart the way forward to the establishment of a national alliance through which they will represent the members in their sector with one united voice. The informal traders` organisations represented at the […]
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SOMALIA. “Hawkers Clash with Police.” Somaliland Sun (17 March 2012) by Yusuf M. Hasan INDIA. “AMC Finally Forms Town Vending Panel.” DNA (17 March 2012) TANZANIA. “Vendors Bow to Magufuli Order.” Daily News Online (17 March 2012) by Finnigan Wa Simbeye CANADA. “Union Station Revitalization Ignores Street Food Vendors.” Spacing Toronto (blog) (16 March 2012) […]
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INDIA. “Ahmedabad Street Vendors to be Allotted Zones for Trade.” DNA (4 March 2012) by Jitendra Dave INDIA. “2700 Street Vendors to Get Permanent Shops Soon.” Times of India (3 March 2012) NAMIBIA. “Rundu Street Vendors in Violent Protest.” New Era (2 March 2012) by Mathias Haufiku SWAZILAND. “Manzini Council Flooded with Street Vending Applications.” […]
Malawi Union For Informal Sector (Mufis)
International Womens Day – 8th March 2012 Women for Malawi Union for Informal Sector had an activity of sweeping and talking to the people at Manase Market in Blantyre. This market has been neglected by City Council of Blantyre. They do not collect refuse at this market; The heap of uncollected garbage at Manase market […]
International Women`s Day
The Times Of India, Ahmedabad, Thursday, March 8, 2012 Deconstructing male masonry Rachaita, The 1st All-Women Construction Workers` Co-Op, Makes History Brick By Brick Radha Sharma | TNN Ahmedabad: Ketan Makwana works as a civil en-gineer in a city-based company. He considers his most valued teacher in the construction industry to be his widowed mother, […]
International Women’s Day – 8th March, 2012 celebration.
TUICO the StreetNet International affiliate in Tanzania, in collaboration with the National Center will have the symposium on 7th of March and will join other women for the big celebrations on 8th March. FEDEVAL, StreetNet Affiliate in Lima Peru, is organizing a formal event to Commemorate self-account women workers. They are inviting the Minister of […]
South African National Day of action against Labour Brokers: Call for strengthening the Social Solidarity Economy
5 March 2012 In solidarity with COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) StreetNet International calls on organisations of street vendors and informal traders in South Africa to unite with the rest of the South African working class in observing a National Day of Action against the use of Labour Brokers on Wednesday 7th March […]
For Brotherly Organizations and cooperatives institutions
We would like to inform the brotherly organizations, national and international cooperatives institutions the incident that touched the lives of more than 5.000 Honduras workers/ the markets workers in Tegucigalpa, of which 1,800 are affiliated to our federation that lost as much as they had invested on their stalls /working areas. All and each one […]
1000 vendors against $1000 fines demonstration 16th February at the City Hall at 12 p.m.
The StreetNet affiliate in USA, Street Vendor Project, in conjunction with another street vendors’ organisation !VAMOS Unidos! are organizing 1000 vendors to demonstrate against $1000 fines levied on street vendors, on 16th February, at the City Hall at 12 p.m. New York City vendors receive exorbitant fines for minor violations that have nothing to do […]
