Legal Empowerment

Author’s Workshop: Contested Urban Spaces: Law, Urbanisation, and Informal Work – Programme

Contested Urban Spaces: Urbanisation, Law, and Informal Work is a two-year edited book project by WIEGO and IRGLUS that explores this theme...

Author’s Workshop: Contested Urban Spaces: Law, Urbanisation, and Informal Work

• January 27, 2022 - January 28, 2022
• Online

Date: January 27 – January 28, 2022 Programme

Empowering Domestic Workers: Community Paralegals Project

Community paralegals –who are members of a community or group trained in the law to assist their fellow community or group members with legal...

COVID-19 Laws and Informal Workers

In March 2020, WIEGO’s Law Programme began a project to collect, collate and analyse the COVID-19 laws in 41 countries in Africa, 7 in Asia,...

Community Paralegals as a Tool to Foster Domestic Workers’ Legal Empowerment and Access to Justice

Domestic workers around the world face a decent work deficit that is due to exclusions from labour laws, the low value associated with the...

The Recognition and Protection of Informal Traders in COVID-19 Laws: Lessons from Asia

This analysis covers COVID-19 laws in seven Asian countries, namely, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and...

Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Improving the Physical Environment (3)

This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

Re-examining Legal Narratives on Vagrancy, Public Spaces and Colonial Constructs: A Commentary on the ACHPR’s Advisory Opinion on Vagrancy Laws in Africa

This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’...

The Impact of COVID-19 Laws on Street Vendors and Market Traders: Trends and Insights from Latin America

This study examines the laws and regulations passed in response to the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America, and their impact on informal vendors,...

Strategic litigation in the informal economy

Discusses the role of strategic regulation in advancing the rights of informal workers, and provides examples of successful cases.