Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India. How do our nations handle the millions of tonnes of fabric and garment waste generated every year? Often these garments and textiles go to the landfills or end up in the oceans; their materials and dyes cause pollution of soil, groundwater, seas and oceans along
The workshop on SSE was conducted on November 2nd, 2022, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with 30 participants, from the six HNSEA country members, and guest speakers from the International Labour Organization (ILO), Asian Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC) and HomeNet International (HNI), both in person and online. The objectives were to learn and confirm the SSE
On October 20th, home-based workers from around the world celebrated the International Home-Based Workers Day. All the way from Nepal, to the gates of India’s Labour Department, and the streets of Pakistan, to regional gatherings in Brazil and singing and dancing in Kenya – and in many more countries – HBWs gathered in festive mode,
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
