Representing informal economy workers is not an act of terrorism!
StreetNet addresses a letter to the President of El Salvador demanding the release of comrade Johnny Douglas Rivera from our affiliated organization FESTIVES
StreetNet official statement on the invasion of Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launching rocket attacks in several Ukrainian cities to target strategic military units and airports. On February 25, Russian troops bombed and entered the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. This act of war has devastating consequences for all Ukrainians, but also for the world at large, […]
Street vendors and other informal economy workers have proven to be essential workers – so where are our workers’ rights?
We are still workers and we are not giving up on having the same access to rights and social protection
STATEMENT BY UNION OF INFORMAL WORKERS’ASSOCIATIONS (UNIWA) OF TUC (GHANA)
On Thursday 15th of July, 2021, armed uniform men from the Ghana Police Service in what can be described as a guerilla warfare style, brutally assaulted Solomon Ansah a 32year old Street Vendor who is married with three children. According to Solomon, his only crime for which the Police Service swiftly responded with instant justice […]
COVID-19 and the World’s Two Billion Informal Economy Workers
DOWNLOAD THE STATEMENT (PDF) Informal economy workers’ organizations across the global economy call on governments at all levels to partner with us on relief, recovery and resilience efforts that are emerging from the grassroots during this time of unprecedented crisis. Informal Economy Workers Are — and Have Always Been — Essential Workers Street vendors and […]
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT WITH IMMIGRANT TRADERS IN SOUTH AFRICA
StreetNet International, representing more than 600 000 members in the sector of street vendors, informal market vendors and hawkers organised in 54 affiliated organisations in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Eastern Europe, expresses its deep concern with the current situation in South Africa where street vendors and informal traders from other neighbour […]
StreetNet position on the “Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work”
108th Session of the International Labour Conference: Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work Position Paper on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work This document is based on the recommendations of the Parallel Commission on “Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work”, which convened during […]
ZCIEA response to Inter-Ministerial banning of Fruit and Vegetables Vendors due to Typhoid Outbreak
"Sustaining current struggles to end destruction of informal homes and livelihoods and establish a credible vendors/government negotiation structure in Lagos, Nigeria"
21 October, 2016 The ban of street trading in Lagos will take away the means of livelihood from street vendors in the midst of economic hardship in Nigeria. Taking into account a high unemployment rate in the country, Lagosians feel the governor should have looked for a way of regulating the activities of the vendors […]
12th Southern Africa Civil Society Forum Commission 6: Transition from informal to formal economy
The major international development during 2015 was the adoption of a new ILO Recommendation 204 on Transitions from the Informal to the Formal Economy. StreetNet International was one of the key organisations, together with WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising) who widely consulted organised workers in the informal economy in Africa, Asia, Latin […]
