Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India.
At 5,000+ years of existence, the Indian saree is considered to be among the oldest form of garment in the world still in existence. With that rich history, the Saree is an institution in itself.
Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India.
Maharashtra’s farmers usually celebrate the festival ‘Pola’ in August, a festival to celebrate, worship and thank their bulls and oxen that labour on their fields round the year.
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
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
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
Since the dawn of civilisation, when economies were rudimentary, and currency was still in the form of cowries and coarse metal, labour has largely been informal. Despite rapid modernisation, beginning with the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, the informal economy has continued to expand, employing millions. Workers in the informal sector shape the globalised
