Legal Empowerment

Innovative Legislation in Australia Protects Homeworkers in the Garment and Footwear Sector

Key Points Outworkers in Australia’s Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industry are known to be particularly vulnerable to exploitation...

Challenging the Boundaries of Labour Law at the Labour Law Research Network Conference

Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste...

Waste Pickers and Human Rights in Latin America

This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human...

African Domestic Workers Fighting for Rights and Reclaiming Power

Society is still not valuing domestic workers more than a decade after the International Labour Organization adopted a convention extending...

Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Analyzing the Implementation of C189 in Latin America and the Caribbean

This Resource Document examines the measures that 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries have taken towards implementing C189: Argentina,...

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...

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:...

Waste Pickers and EPR in India

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

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...

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...