On March 8, 2021 (Women’s Day), HomeNet South Asia launched its campaign - #HomeIsWhereTheArtIs - to bring visibility to its home-based worker-led producer companies, enterprises and cooperatives. The campaign is a showcase of solidarity and also looks to highlight the work of thousands of women home-based workers and their representative organisations. Most importantly, they want...
The Kathmandu Declaration in 2000 established October 20 as Home-based Workers’ Day. To commemorate the day, every year, Network members across the world organize a series of events and demonstrations aimed at drawing attention to the situation of home-based workers and to present a series of demands, including: Ratification of ILO Convention 177 on Homework and creation of...
Zehra Akbar, HBWWF 2016 Adopted at the International Labour Conference in 1996, C177 mandates that all homeworkers have basic labour rights and asserts the applicability of core labour standards and other standards to all homeworkers. But more than two decades later, only 10 countries have ratified C177 and too few workers have realized their rights. Now, home-based workers and their...
HomeNet Phillippines UHC Workshop, 2018 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a priority in many ASEAN countries in response to informal workers’ demands. HomeNet South-East Asia is working with Affiliates and developing regional strategies aimed at bringing together informal worker organizations, national health policymakers, other civil society groups and allies in the field of public health in...
https://www.wiego.org/COVID19-Platform Home-Based Workers Networks across the world join informal economy workers’ organizations across the global economy call on governments at all levels to partner with us on relief, recovery and resilience efforts that are emerging from the grassroots during this time of unprecedented crisis.The COVID-19 crisis has drawn the world’s attention to longstanding inequalities in the way governments...
The HomeNet International Network will join efforts with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and allies to continue to call for ratification of the ILO Convention 190 and Recommendation 206 with a dedicated focus on women workers in informal economy whose lives and livelihoods have been acutely impacted by COVID-19 and the unprecedented economic...
By: Video courtesy of AP1TVThe Advisory Board of HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) convened in Kathmandu, Nepal, for a three-day Regional Conference, where they presented a collective "Call to Action", urging immediate attention to the issues facing home-based workers. The gathering brought together chairpersons, enforcers, trustees, advisory board members, and associates of HNSA, along with home-based...
