Legal Empowerment

Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

Global Wage Report 2012/13 Wages and equitable growth (Executive Summary)

The Global Wage Report 2012/13 addresses wage disparities worldwide and how these have been affected by the economic crisis. The report includes...

Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor: Progress Report

Progress report on WIEGO grant activities concerning law and the working poor in Thailand for the second half of 2012

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....

Legal Empowerment of the Poor: The Re-emergence of a Lost Strand of Human Rights?

Abstract: This paper considers the contribution of the UNDP’s Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) framework to the rights and poverty...

Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban Environment

The New Urban Agenda envisages cities and human settlements that fulfil their social function. But what is a city’s “social function”? And...

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...

Human Rights for Precarious Workers: The Legislative Precariousness of Domestic Labor

Informality, Illegality, and Inequality

Medidas cautelares para trabajadores informalesLa Revista Académica de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad La Salle

La Revista Académica de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad La Salle, es un texto con rigor científico que tiene por objeto abordar...