The Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation, 2011
Review of the development and early stages of adoption of the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers. Resource is subscription only.
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City/Country Level Reports
“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”
Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.
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أطلقت شبكة المنظمات العربية غير الحكومية للتنمية الإصدار الثالث لراصد الحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعيّة في البلدان العربيّة الذي ركّز هذه المرّة...
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IDRC Final Report: Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor
Summary of three-country study of law and the working poor, funded by IDRC (November 2011-March 2013)
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Precarious Migrant Status and Precarious Employment: The Paradox of International Rights for Migrant Workers
Discusses the challenges of using international law to protect the rights of precariously-employed migrant workers. The author concludes...
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Books & Book Chapters
Social regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The international, regional and national interplay of labour alternative dispute resolution mechanisms
Abstract: The Southern African Development Community region (SADC) has seen a trend toward applying Alternative Dispute Settlement (ADR)...
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Using Administrative Law to Secure Informal Livelihoods: Lessons from South Africa
Although informal workers make up the broad base of the work force in many countries, legal frameworks often fail to protect and support...
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Report on Domestic Workers in Ghana
Overview of the domestic worker sector in Ghana
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On Castles and Commerce: Zoning Law and the Home-Business Dilemma
Discusses how zoning laws can prevent or enable the development of home-based businesses in the United States.
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Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development
Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...
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