Legal Empowerment

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

Report on Contract Farming in Thailand

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.

People want to work, yet most have to labour: Towards decent work in South African supply chainsLaw, Democracy and Development

The rights of labour have been described as “claims of reciprocity for the reality of being labour”. For over 12 million unemployed South...

Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

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

Formal Versus Informal Allocation of Land in a Commons: The Case of the Macarthur Park Sidewalk Vendors

Analyzing patterns of formal and informal property rights among sidewalk vendors in the United States.

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...