Legal Empowerment

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.

Poverty, Legal Empowerment and Informal Business in South Africa

Laws, Legitimacy and Ongoing Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian Policies on Domestic Workers’ Rights

This Policy Brief explores domestic worker struggles in Bolivia.  It concentrates on laws and policies applied by the government of Evo Morales...

Law: Lei No. 6.586 – Classifica o comerciante ambulante para fins trabalhistas e previdenciários

Brazilian law classifying street vendors for the purpose of labor and social security law

TUC (Ghana)/WIEGO Informal Economy Legal Project – Results from Legal Consultation Workshop

Results of a strategy session on identifying and addressing laws impacting informal economy workers in Ghana

Case Study: Mrs Wimala Saeng-kaew (organza embroidery)

OIT Ley No 27986: Ley de los trabajadores del hogar: texto del convenio sobre el trabajo decente para las trabajadoras y los trabajadores domésticos

OIT convenio sobre la ley de los trabajadores del hogar: texto del convenio sobre el trabajo decente para las trabajadoras y los trabajadores...

Proyecto de Ley 4387-98 Que propone reconocer al trabajador autónomo ambulatorio, Perú

Proyecto de Ley 4387-98 Que propone reconocer al trabajador autónomo ambulatorio, Perú

WIEGO dans le Monde: Newsletter, juillet 2015

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Charter for a Street-Trading Friendly African City: Steps that African Mayors can take to embrace inclusive and sustainable street trading management

Informal trading is a prevalent reality in African cities, still marked by high degree of poverty, unemployment and inequality, and affected...