Legal Empowerment

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

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 Economy: Law and Policy Demands, Lessons from the WIEGO India Pilot Study

In 2008, WIEGO initiated the Law and Informal Economy project, focusing on the legal aspects of helping informal workers with economic opportunity,...

Homeworkers in Thailand and Legal Rights Protections

Regulatory Governance and the Informal Economy: Cross-National Comparisons

This article examines the relationship between state regulation and the informal economy at the macro-level across a broad set of countries....

¿Qué derechos laborales tienen los trabajadores informales del servicio de limpia en la ciudad de México?: el caso de los trabajadores voluntarios y pepenadoresMétodhos

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo demostrar que el servicio de limpia es un servicio público cuya realización corresponde al Gobierno...