Legal Empowerment

Your Rights and Duties as an Informal Trader

This guide is meant for informal traders in Accra, Ghana. It covers market traders who sell in public markets. It also covers hawkers who...

Labour Rights are Human Rights! Beyond the Slogan for Workers in Informal Employment

New Book Sheds Light on Urban Regulations and Their Impact on Workers in Informal Employment

From the Palace to the Kitchens: Making C189 Real for Domestic Workers in Africa – WIEGO Law & Informality Insights No. 9

From ‘Battles’ to Collective Agreements Between Street Vendors and Local Authorities in Zimbabwe – WIEGO Organizing Brief No. 17

How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People

By keeping corporations accountable for the waste they produce and providing affordable goods and services to working class people, recyclers...

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The Devil Is in the Detail: The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability and Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains

How close collaboration between homeworker organizations and key allies secured a huge victory: for the first time, EU legislation on corporate...

Written Observations on the Request for an Advisory Opinion on the Content and Scope of the Right to Care as a Human Right and its Interrelation with Other Rights

WIEGO submitted written observations to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the right to care. The submission was developed...