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• Sept. 25, 2008
  Informal sector employees to enjoy pensions until death
  Koforidua, GNA - Under the new pension scheme, which will soon take off, employees in the informal sector or the self employed would enjoy pensions after they retire at the age of 60 until they die. Read full story
  
  

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• Sept. 27, 2006
  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joins AFL-CIO President Sweeney, former President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Inez McCormack, and AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity in honoring the Self Employed Women's Association and Ela Bhatt with the George Meany - Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award    Read full story...
  
  
• Francie Lund co-edits ELDIS Gender Issues Resource page highlighting Social Protection and Gender as a key issue
  
  
• May 27, 2006
  WIEGO authors contribute to special "Review of Labour" issue of Economic and Political Weekly Read more ...
  
  
• Ela Bhatt delivers 2006 Graduation Address at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
  
  
• StreetNet International Co-ordinator deported from Zimbabwe
  
  
• Joint Conference on "The Informal Economy in Ghana: A Comparative Perspective" hosted by WIEGO and the Ghana Statistical Service
• WIEGO writes UNIFEM's Progress of the World's Women 2005
• SEWA under Attack (español)
• WIEGO Produces Two Books for Commonwealth Secretariat
• Membership Based Organizations of the Poor
• SEWA wins website of the year
• WIEGO Newsletter: January - June 2005
  UNIFEM’s Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work, and Poverty
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• SEWA recognized as Central Trade Union
• September 26, 2003
  Draft Legislation to provide universal health insurance, life insurance and old age pension benefits to 'unorganized sector' in India
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• Rakawin Leechanavanichpan of Homenet Thailand appears on PBS program, NOW with Bill Moyers episode, "Women and Globalization"
  Rakawin Leechanavanichpan, Director of Homenet Thailand, appeared on the highly regarded PBS program, NOW with Bill Moyers. The episode entitled "Women and Globalization", presented the story of women factory workers in Thailand as well as laborers in other areas of the world.
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  Read "Rich World, Poor Women: Women and Work"
  Read about Further Developments on Factory Workers in Thailand

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