Legal Empowerment

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...

Social Movement Lawyering: A Reflection on the Nature of Law and Lawyering Through the Lens of Informal Workers

Applying insights from critical legal studies, this issue of Law and Informality Insights explores how informal workers use the law to resolve...

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...