Legal Empowerment

How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People

By keeping corporations accountable for the waste they produce and providing affordable goods and services to working class people, recyclers...

Legal Empowerment

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The Devil Is in the Detail: The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability and Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains

How close collaboration between homeworker organizations and key allies secured a huge victory: for the first time, EU legislation on corporate...

Written Observations on the Request for an Advisory Opinion on the Content and Scope of the Right to Care as a Human Right and its Interrelation with Other Rights

WIEGO submitted written observations to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the right to care. The submission was developed...

Applying International Labour Standards to the Informal Economy – Chapter 1: Convention 87 – Freedom of Association

To provide workers and workers’ organizations, including unions, the tools to use existing ILO conventions and recommendations creatively...

Applying International Labour Standards to the Informal Economy – Introduction

To provide workers and workers’ organizations, including unions, the tools to use existing ILO conventions and recommendations creatively...

Registering Informal Workers in India: e-Shram, an Opportunity Lost?

The launch of e-Shram, a national database of workers who earn a living in the informal economy, holds lessons for implementation going forward...

Statistics as a Catalyst for Making Women Workers Visible

Renana Jhabvala, co-founder of SEWA and former chair of WIEGO, talks about the historical relationship between both organizations, and the...

‘Whose Law? Our Law!’: Critical Reflections on Legalization, Social Dialogue and Street Vendors’ Organizing in São Paulo

Key Points The institutionalization of social dialogue is an important step towards more just regulation of informal vending, but alone it...