Legal Empowerment

In Dakar, lawyers experience informal workers’ daily lives and rethink policy

Policymaking that impacts informal workers rarely comes with first-hand knowledge of their lives and needs. A new initiative in Dakar, Senegal,...

Dakar : après s’être mis dans la peau des travailleuses et travailleurs de l’informel, des avocats réévaluent les politiques

Les politiques ayant un impact sur la vie des travailleuses et travailleurs de l’informel sont rarement élaborées sur la base de la connaissance...

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...

Informal Employment and Challenges for Labour Law

From the book, The Idea of Labour Law. The book articulates a new way of conceptualizing labor law and its future by some of the world’s...

Legal Recognition of Street VendorsYOJANA

This article gives a brief explanation of the Bill for the protection of livelihood and regulation of street vending in the Lok Sabha. This...

Toward a Decent Work Regime for Informal Employment in Ghana: Some Preliminary Considerations

Procurement Policy Subversion in Contracts Between South African Retailers and Suppliers

Abstract: This chapter focuses on tensions and regulatory gaps impacting public procurement reform in the private sector (supply chain) doing...

Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India

This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns...