Theme: Legal Empowerment

Webinar Series: Legal and Advocacy Strategies to Ensure Workers’ Rights in the Informal Economy

• January 1, 2021 - April 30, 2022
• Online

WIEGO’s Law Programme and the International Network for Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) presented a multi-part series of webinars and workshops...

Why Brands Should Pay Compensation to Informal Garment Workers in Their Supply Chains

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Informal Workers, Social Audits and Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains

In December 2020, the EU Council requested the EU Commission to draft a legal framework that would make it mandatory for all companies established...

Know Your Rights: Street Vendors in India Poster (English)

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

This paper analyses the COVID-19 laws of 41 Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African countries with an informal trading lens. It considers...

Human rights violations signal urgent need to improve waste pickers’ working conditions in Latin America

For waste pickers, harassment is a part of daily life, also before the pandemic. Our reports on human rights in Latin America serve as a...

United Nations Virtual Forum on Business and Human Rights

• November 16, 2020 - November 18, 2020
• Geneva (Online)

The United National Virtual Forum on Business and Human Rights is the largest global gathering with a focus on trends, challenges and progress...

‘Punished for their poverty’: Street traders under COVID-19

Because it often takes litigation to get city authorities to protect informal traders’ rights, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South...

Global Supply Chains in Times of COVID-19 – Global Labour University MOOC

• September 25, 2020
• Online

In August 2020, The Global Labour University launched a free self-paced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Global Supply Chains in Times...

‘Punished for their poverty’: Street traders in South Africa

Because it often takes litigation to get city authorities to protect informal traders’ rights, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South...