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Home-Based Workers 30 March 2014
(English) GLOBAL. Main challenges of organising vulnerable workers. IOL (28 March 2014) by Pat Horn. All workers are vulnerable. Workers are vulnerable to dismissal, to bad health and safety...
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Home-Based Worker News 13 April 2014
(English) NEPAL. Creative couturiers. The Himalayan Times (11 April 2014). From ethnic wear to Western influences, fruit salads (look out for this word in our ‘ramp vocab’) to bridal wears,...
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Home-Based Worker News 27 April 2014
(English) PAKISTAN. Labouring for social security. TNS (27 April 2014) by Ume Laila. The magnitude of home-based work and workers’ exploitation call for greater public intervention and policy review....
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Home-Based Worker News 11 May 2014
(English) MALAYSIA. 52 out of 100 women in Malaysia are wage earners. The Star Online (9 May 2014). “We would like to see more educated and professional women bloom as self-employed individuals,...
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Home-Based Worker News 25 May 2014
(English) PAKISTAN. IHT receives Japanese grant to help rebuild livelihoods of artisans. The Daily Times (24 May 2014). The World Bank (WB), as administrator of grants provided by the Japanese...
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Home-Based Worker News 22 June 2014
(English) PAKISTAN. Punjab commission on status of women starts work. The International News (21 June 2014) by Meeran Karim. Talking to The News, PCSW Chairperson Viqar said the Commission will act as...
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Home-Based Worker News 6 July 2014
(English) GHANA. Ghana in Retrospect. All Africa (4 July 2014) by Frank Asante. Ghana has progressed in many fronts of national life in terms of development since independence. In the same measure, we...
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Home-Based Worker News 20 July 2014
(English) USA. Rethinking an awful idea. Providence Journal (20 July 2014). A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the government’s power to coerce union dues and fees from some workers has...
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Home-Based Worker News 28 September 2014
(English) PAKISTAN. Provinces asked to adopt all laws on labour. Daily Times (27 September 2014). Speakers at Labour Conference on Friday demanded that all the laws related to labour should be adopted...
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Home-Based Worker News 12 October 2014
(English) INDIA. Stitching Clothes and a Culture of Non-Violence in India’s Garment Factories. Care2 (12 October 2014) via UN Women. According to studies by Fair Wear Foundation, violence against women...
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