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Theme: Legal Empowerment

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    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...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    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...

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  • e-Shram - Informal Workers in India Post
    Building Collective Power

    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...

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  • Renana Jhabvala, co-founder of SEWA and former chair of WIEGO Post
    Building Collective Power

    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...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    ‘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...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    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...

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  • Waste Pickers in Accra, Ghana 2019 Post

    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...

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    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...

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  • Domestic worker Anna Nkobele, based in Johannesburg Post
    Collective Bargaining

    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...

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