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Blog, South Asia
December 27, 2022

HomeNet South Asia along with its affiliates SABAH Nepal, Home Based Workers Concern Society Nepal (HBWCSN), and Khokana Women Awareness Society (KWAS), and in collaboration with WIEGO, organised a four-day exposure visit of home-based worker leaders from Uganda and South Africa to Kathmandu, Nepal. The exposure visit included field visits to the three HBWs women organisations...

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December 26, 2022

Sister Jyoti Macwan, the General Secretary of SEWA, spoke at the International Trade Union Confederation’s fourth World Women’s Conference held on November 16th, in Melbourne, Australia. Sister Jyoti addressed the importance of Universal Social Protection and also on the important role of Waste Recyclers in the Circular Economy as part of a just transition.At ITUC’s...

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Africa, Blog
December 26, 2022

The five countries currently represented in HNA, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda met in December 2021 and February 2022 to agree the vision and goals for building a regional home-based workers’ network. The vision is for home-based workers to have our own registered organisation that addresses all our needs as over-burdened women workers.The...

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Blog, COTRADO ALAC
December 23, 2022

On October 12, 13 and 14, 2022 at the headquarters of the Central Unica dos Trabalhadores (CUT) in São Paulo, Brazil, the fifth regional meeting of the Regional Coordination of Home-Based Workers' Organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean was held. The meeting was an opportunity to dialogue, reflect, and plan activities to strengthen the unity...

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December 21, 2022

HNI successfully completed a 10-week-long online course on crowdfunding for its affiliates. The course was held in English and was attended by 68 participants from 32 affiliate organisations from Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia regions. The course was organised by HNI in partnership with WIEGO and was delivered by Mr. Marco Kuntze from Relishing Digital,...

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September 28, 2022

The pandemic has had a huge impact on the lives and livelihoods of home-based workers and their organisations. This has been accompanied by natural and human-made disasters in various parts of the world leading to double jeopardy for home-based workers. ...

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March 30, 2022

As part of the 8th OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector, HomeNet International (HNI) along with regional organisations, HomeNet South Asia, and HomeNet SouthEast Asia, Women in Informal Employment Organising and Globalising (WIEGO), HomeWorkers Worldwide and Traidcraft Exchange, held a side session on February 25, 2022, titled: “A chain is...