Legal Empowerment

New Book Sheds Light on Urban Regulations and Their Impact on Workers in Informal Employment

From the Palace to the Kitchens: Making C189 Real for Domestic Workers in Africa

From ‘Battles’ to Collective Agreements Between Street Vendors and Local Authorities in Zimbabwe – WIEGO Organizing Brief No. 17

Legal Empowerment

Law Programme

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...