Legal Empowerment

Social Protection for Self-Employed Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A rights-based assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis

Informal workers make up a large proportion of the “missing middle” in social protection – those who are not considered vulnerable enough...

A chain is as strong as its weakest link: Why EU mandatory due diligence legislation must include homeworkers

• February 25, 2022
• Online

Watch this 90-minute discussion, which makes the case for homeworkers to be included in EU legislation and corporate due diligence. This...

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...

Waste Pickers and Human Rights

ILO estimates indicate that close to 20 million people worldwide earn their living from recycling waste. Many work as waste pickers who gather...