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HNSEA advocated for Social Protection for informal economy workers at the ASEAN Civil Society Conferences / ASEAN People Forum

HomeNet Southeast Asia advocated social protection for informal economy workers and other marginalized people in the Southeast Asian region at the ASEAN Civil Society Conferences / ASEAN People Forum, which is the parallel meeting of the ASEAN Summit. ACSC/APF 2022 was organized in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 3 – 5 November 2022 and around 500

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SEWA brought much needed attention to the struggles of women workers in the informal economy at the ITUC World Women’s Conference and at their 5th World Congress

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

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HomeNet Africa working together to implement the region’s strategic plan

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.

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First in-person HNI Working Committee Meeting was held in Nepal

The main objective of the meeting was to begin preparations for HNI’s Congress which will be held from April 25th to 28th, 2023, in Kathmandu, Nepal. After nearly one year and eight months of working remotely and meeting virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the HomeNet International Working Committee, the transitional leadership committee that contributes

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HomeNet Africa Celebrates Home-based Workers Day with a Photo Contest

2022 was the first time that HNI African affiliates and allied organisations took the initiative to plan their own way to celebrate International Home-Based Workers Day; as home-based workers always joined or participated in activities initiated at the global level. After discussing several ways of how Homenet Africa could celebrate the date, they decided to

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Fifth regional meeting of the regional coordination of Home-based Workers’ organisations of Latin America and the Caribbean- COTRADO ALAC

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

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