WIEGO Blog

Challenging the Boundaries of Labour Law at the Labour Law Research Network Conference

16 August 2023

Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste pickers, should also be the subjects of labour law. WIEGO's panel at the Labour Law Research Network aimed to challenge this.

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Gladys Mponda, Vice President of the Malawi Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS)

For an Organization to Move, It Needs Women

WIEGO Blog

21 March 2023

In this interview, Gladys Mponda, Vice President of the Malawi Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS), talks about the value of organizing, the importance of R204 and the strength of women.

Organizing & Organizations, Care workers/care economy, Women's Economic Empowerment, Child Care, Cooperatives/Unions/Organizing, Exposure Dialogues, Global Advocacy

Waste pickers at work in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Climate Crisis, Health and Informality: Building a Movement Across Borders

Christy Adeola Braham

15 March 2023

Workers in informal employment experience frequent workplace exposure to a range of occupational health and safety risks. The climate crisis poses an additional, existential threat to workers – with catastrophic impacts on workers’ health and livelihoods.

Social Protection, Environment/Climate change

Home-Based Workers, Lahore, Pakistan, 2014

The Journey Towards Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

WIEGO Blog

10 February 2023

Home-based workers in Pakistan’s Sindh province achieved a historic victory with legislation that gives approximately 5 million home-based workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively, social protection, and access dispute resolution mechanisms.

Organizing & Organizations, Cooperatives/Unions/Organizing, Global Supply Chains/Global Trade

Local women make camouflage nets, Uzhhorod in western Ukraine

From Organizing Workers to Organizing Humanitarian Aid

Leslie Vryenhoek

11 January 2023

Between July and September 2022, StreetNet International, Cities Alliance and WIEGO interviewed Ukrainian women – most self-employed traders – to determine how the war is affecting women, their incomes and their well-being. Valentyna Korobka was one of these women.

Cooperatives/Unions/Organizing, Links with Economic Growth/Crisis, Livelihoods, Workplace Safety

Angélique Kipulu Katani, General Secretary of the League for the Rights of Congolese Women (LDFC) Democratic Republic of the Congo

Organizing Women Workers in War and Beyond

WIEGO Blog

4 January 2023

In this interview, Angélique Kipulu Katani, founder and current General Secretary of the League for the Rights of Congolese Women (LDFC) reflects on 25 years of struggle for women who work in informal employment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Organizing & Organizations, Cooperatives/Unions/Organizing