Legal Empowerment

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...

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:...