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  • Labour Law Research Network Conference Thumbnail Jun 27 2023

    Collective Bargaining and Occupational Health and Safety for Informal Self-Employed Workers: Realizing ILO Recommendation 204

    • June 27, 2023
    • Warsaw, Poland

    WIEGO will take part in the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) conference with a panel titled “Collective Bargaining and Occupational...

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  • Webinar on Informal Economy Work and the Right to Work in Africa - Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik May 30 2023

    Webinar on Informal Economy Work and the Right to Work in Africa

    • May 30, 2023
    • Online

    Date: Tuesday May 30, 2023Time: 12:00hrs – 14:00hrs (GMT); 15:00hrs – 17:00hrs (EAT); 14:00hrs – 16:00hrs (SAT)Duration: 2 hoursLanguages:...

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  • Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 - The Domestic Workers’ Convention Toolkits and Guides

    Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 – The Domestic Workers’ Convention (Caribbean Region)

    WIEGO and the IDWF partnered to write this toolkit to support IDWF affiliates in their efforts to make C189 real for domestic workers. The...

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  • Sangeeta Ben walks her daily route working as a waste picker in an Ahmedabad slum Post

    Waste Pickers and EPR in India

    Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) transfers the responsibility of waste management from municipal authorities to the producers of the...

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  • Street vendors in Accra, Ghana. Post
    Access to Public Space April 25, 2023

    Uganda’s Constitutional Court Holds Vagrancy Laws Unconstitutional

    In a ground-breaking decision for street vendors and other informal workers, the Constitutional Court of Uganda found the country’s vagrancy...

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  • GSEF Dakar May 01 2023

    WIEGO in the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF)

    • May 1, 2023 - May 6, 2023
    • Dakar, Sénégal

    Global Position Paper from Organizations of Workers in the Informal Economy ILC 110th Session – General discussion on Social and Solidarity...

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  • publication thumbnail Law & Informality Insights

    Defending Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods: Lessons from Litigation in Latin America

    Waste pickers have won several legal actions in Latin America over the past two decades. This edition looks at the lessons learned.

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  • Organizing Briefs

    The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

    This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...

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  • Law & Informality Highlights - September 2022 Law & Informality Insights

    A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers

    This publication – A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers...

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  • Journal Articles

    Book Review: The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

    Released in 2020, the book “The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future” has been reviewed by...

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