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Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change

By , , on June 26, 2025

Legal-empowerment approaches provide powerful tools to strengthen domestic worker movements, improve the legal protections of domestic workers and bring about change in their working conditions. Incorporating worker education into legal empowerment work and embedding this in the structure and functioning of domestic worker organizations can set in motion a transformative process whereby empowered domestic workers strengthen unions’ collective voice and ultimately result in the effective recognition and protection of domestic workers’ rights.

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Marchiori, Teresa, Dinesh, Krithika, and Gorejena, Tapiwa. Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change. Law & Informality Insights, (10), . , 2025. https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/wiego-law-informality-insights-10.pdfMarchiori, T., Dinesh, K., and Gorejena, T. (2025). Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change. Law & Informality Insights, (10), . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/wiego-law-informality-insights-10.pdfMarchiori, Teresa, Dinesh, Krithika, and Gorejena, Tapiwa. "Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change." Law & Informality Insights, 2025, .Marchiori Teresa, Dinesh Krithika, and Gorejena Tapiwa. "Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change." Law & Informality Insights , no. 10 (2025). https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/wiego-law-informality-insights-10.pdfMarchiori, T, Dinesh, K, and Gorejena, T 2025, 'Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change', Law & Informality Insights, (10), . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/wiego-law-informality-insights-10.pdfTeresa Marchiori, Krithika Dinesh, and Tapiwa Gorejena, 'Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change' (2025) Law & Informality Insights Marchiori T., Dinesh K., and Gorejena T. Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change. Law & Informality Insights. 2025(10). https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/wiego-law-informality-insights-10.pdfMarchiori, Teresa, Dinesh, Krithika, and Gorejena, Tapiwa. Legal Empowerment at Work: Using Legal Empowerment to Advance the Rights of Domestic Workers, Strengthen Movements and Bring Systemic Change. Law & Informality Insights. 2025, (10), . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/wiego-law-informality-insights-10.pdf

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