Join our global contest for the best street vendor emoji!
StreetNet International is looking for the best street vendor emoji – join our global contest now!
How was it being present at the launch of StreetNet in 2002?
We asked Marty Chen, Co-Founder, International Coordinator Emeritus and Board Member of WIEGO for her thoughts.
Labor Day in Malawi
On 1 May each year, the world remembers all people who are working on different works and in different places in the day called Labour’s Day.
May Day 2022: Workers in Informal Employment Demand Action So That No One is Left Behind
We, organizations of workers in informal employment across the world, call on governments at all levels to partner with us on relief. Informal work accounts for more than 61% of all global employment – some two billion workers – and in developing countries, we make up 90% of total employment. Governments need to take note: […]
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
Investments in social and labour protections needed for economic recovery
Organizations representing over 2.1 million informal workers from around the world call on governments to accelerate investments in worker protections as a central component of economic recovery plans.
StreetNet celebrates International Women’s Day 2021!
Why should we defend women’s rights? Watch the video:
6 months of pandemic: StreetNet’s response to COVID-19
When 2020 started, informal traders all over the world had no way of knowing this year would put their resilience, determination, and solidarity to a more challenging test they could hardly imagine, despite their lives always being in danger. Six months after the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world, leading to crippling social and economic problems […]
2 Billion Strong: Recovery Starts with Us!
Informal economy workers of the world are united calling for a transformation of the model of work, stating: “The economy cannot recover without us!”. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Network Global Solidarity Platform is an alliance of informal traders, home-based workers, domestic workers and waste pickers. On May 1, 2020 we issued […]
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 […]
