Theme: Legal Empowerment

Law and Informality

Law is an essential tool in improving livelihoods and lives. But legal and regulatory frameworks are designed for the formal economy. Too...

Urban Renewal, Heritage Sites & Urban Livelihoods: Devi-Ben, Street Vendor

These are the reflections of Marty Chen, WIEGO’s International Coordinator, following an Exposure-Dialogue Programme held January 27-February...

Waste Pickers and the Law

Waste pickers collect, sort, recycle, and sell materials that others have thrown away. They benefit urban health and sanitation, lower municipal...

Street Vendors and the Law

Street vendors are an integral part of the world’s urban economies, contributing to vibrant retail markets and providing an array of...

Home-Based Workers and the Law

Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from in or around their own homes. Although largely invisible, they are engaged...

Domestic Workers and Law

Domestic workers provide essential services (e.g. cleaning, cooking, childcare, gardening) in other peoples’ homes─which allows others...

Domestic Workers and C189: Making it Real, Africa

Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention...

Domestic Workers and C189: Power and Skills to Make it Real

• May 24, 2019 - May 26, 2019
• Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF) affiliates from across Africa gathered in May at this workshop, aimed at strengthening worker...

With “Roma” in the Awards Circle, Here are Our Must-reads on Domestic Workers

Next month, we’ll find out if director Alfonso Cuarón Orozco’s moving portrayal of a domestic worker in 1970s Mexico will gain nods from...