Legal Empowerment

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...

WIEGO in the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF)

• May 1, 2023 - May 6, 2023
• Dakar, Sénégal

Global Position Paper from Organizations of Workers in the Informal Economy ILC 110th Session – General discussion on Social and Solidarity...

Defending Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods: Lessons from Litigation in Latin America

Waste pickers have won several legal actions in Latin America over the past two decades. This edition looks at the lessons learned.

The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...

A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers

This publication – A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers...

Book Review: The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

Released in 2020, the book “The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future” has been reviewed by...

Transforming the traditional social contract: Reflections from “Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South”

• July 19, 2022
• Online

On July 19, 2022, WIEGO will launch the new volume, Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South, where the editors and contributors...

India’s Street Vendor Protection Act: Good on Paper But Is It Working?

India’s Street Vendor Protection Act was enacted after a long struggle and is widely lauded, yet a close look nearly a decade later shows...