Legal Empowerment

Mexico City Recognizes the Rights of Informal Waste Pickers

On July 15th 2016, Mexico City’s Human Rights Commission (CDHDF) issued Recommendation 7/2016, named “Omissions in Mexico City’s urban solid...

Law Project in 5 Countries

Membership-Based Organizations – The Heart of the Law & Informality Project In 2006 WIEGO instituted a global project on Law and...

Turning the Law into a Shield for Street Vendors in African Countries

This Legal Brief compares the Civil Law and Common Law systems to explore the recourses and remedies street vendors may have to to defend...

Rights of Home-based Workers

Legal Empowerment of Workers in the Informal Economy

This report provides detailed information on a project, where workers were trained on unionism, social security, occupational health and...

Mobilizing Law in Contemporary Russia: The Evolution of Disputes Over Home Repair Projects

Analyzing the accessibility of formal substantive law to ordinary Russians and finding low rates of participation in the legal system, even...

Mediating from the margins: The role of intermediaries in facilitating participation in markets by poor producersSouth African Journal of Labour Relations

Abstract: This article argues that the preponderance of market intermediaries is driven by two imprimaturs. The first relates to the global...

Domestic workers and Informality: Compliance with DecentWork for Domestic Workers as a Transgression to the Asymmetrical Law of the Home Workplace*

The situation of informality addressed through invisibility and the consequent need to overcome the asymmetrical law of home-based work. ...

Every Pair Tells a Story: Report on a Survey of Homeworking and Subcontracting Chains in Six Countries of the European Union

The six countries included in the report are Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, and The Netherlands.

Report on Situation of Domestic Workers in Thailand in 2012