The Right to the City and informal economy workers in public spaces
Street vendors are workers who make their living trading goods in the streets, squares and markets of cities. In large urban centers, especially in countries with the highest unemployment rates in the formal labor market, we see men and women working in public spaces from dawn to dusk selling food, beverages, utilities, and a variety […]
What COVID-19 teaches us about the Right to the City of street vendors?
October 31, officially known as UN World Cities Day, has been re-interpreted by activist across the globe as the World Day for the Right to the City. To mark that important date, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) and its members have developed a series of initiatives and campaigns, known as […]
“No city can be inclusive, equitable and sustainable without the inputs from the informal workers!”
15 August, 2016 By Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Media Officer Juliana Brown Afari, StreetNet Vice-President and WIEGO Board Member talks about her participatory experience in the third session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom3) of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), which was held in Surabaya, Indonesia on 25 -27 July, […]
New Urban Agenda and perspectives for the street vendors in HABITAT III Conference
23 June 2016 By Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Media Officer The HABITAT III Conference, also known as the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development is going to be held in Quito, Ecuador, on 17-20 October 2016. Since the conference will bring together a large range of urban actors including local authorities, civil society, […]
“The City We Want” Campaign launched in South Africa
StreetNet affiliate, Ubumbano Traders’ Alliance, together with members of SASEWA (South African Self-Employed Women’s Association), representatives of minibus-taxi drivers, conductors and washers, and Abahlali base Mjondolo shack dwellers’ organisation, launched “The City we Want” Campaign in Durban, on Wednesday, 9 March 2016. They were supported by Executive Committee members of SAITA (South African Informal Traders’ […]
