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WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing ... to improve the status of the working poor, especially women in the informal economy.

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Our non-profit blog was inspired by a Filipina domestic from the Middle East who left her newborn baby – with placenta still attached – at the Bahrain Gulf Air airplane toilet - upon landing in Manila, read her story here http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/this-blog-was-inspired-by-filipina.htm . Her despair and desperation inspired this blog to gather all possible stories in order to help, to inform and to empower all Filipina nannies, caregivers and maids -- to liberate themselves from abuses of all forms: physical, rape, verbal, exploitation, overtime working without pay.... Send us your stories. Stay anonymous - if you like. (No one can afford to deny this matter anymore). Write in Tagalog, or your dialect, or English, or French, or any language. ALL nannies, caregivers and domestic maids are welcome, send your stories to mangococonutmay1@gmail.com
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WIEGO

Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.

http://wiego.org/

We work wherever possible through WIEGO affiliates of informal workers, with street vendors, waste pickers, home-based workers, and others.

The field of OHS does not usually cover informal workers. It focuses on formal workplaces, not on where the majority of workers really work – on the streets, in their own homes, on garbage dumps and at landfills, for example. OHS tends to define health problems very narrowly, and does not see the worker in the context of family, living and working in very poor conditions.

Who We Are
What We Do

Nohra Padilla, Colombia

Waste picker awarded world's largest prize for grassroots environmental activism

WIEGO Microsites

	Informal Employment in China & India
	Law & Informality

Occupational Health & Safety

WIEGO General Assemblies

WIEGO Organization & Representation Database
(WORD)

Women's Economic Empowerment
Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women

Recent News

9 May 2013 (Zambia)

NGO Commends Women's Role in Family Economy

9 May 2013 (Pakistan and India)

Indo-Pak Women Artisans Join Hands to Stitch Together Peace
more news »»

Occupational Health & Safety in the Informal Economy

WIEGO is currently running a four-year research project about occupational health and safety (OHS) for informal workers. We have been working in five countries: