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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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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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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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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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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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‘Whose Law? Our Law!’: Critical Reflections on Legalization, Social Dialogue and Street Vendors’ Organizing in São Paulo
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The institutionalization of social dialogue is an important step towards more just regulation of informal vending, but alone it...
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Innovative Legislation in Australia Protects Homeworkers in the Garment and Footwear Sector
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Outworkers in Australia’s Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industry are known to be particularly vulnerable to exploitation...
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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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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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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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