Advanced Search
Search Results
523 results found
Español Français WIEGO’s Law Programme and the International Network for Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) are presenting a multi-part series of webinars and workshops focused on strategic and creative litigation and advocacy strategies to enhance, protect and help realize the labour and collective...
This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (ACHPR) advisory opinion, which was delivered in response to a continental challenge against vagrancy laws on the grounds that they violate several...
This study examines the laws and regulations passed in response to the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America, and their impact on informal vendors, including market and street vendors. Our analysis covers 16 countries in the region – Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El...
Contested Urban Spaces: Urbanisation, Law, and Informal Work is a two-year edited book project by WIEGO and IRGLUS that explores this theme across multiple jurisdictions and from diverse viewpoints. To participate in this project, please submit an abstract of between 300-400 words to the editors by...
Provides an introduction to the informal economy, including: labour law and its scope; the definition of informal economy; an overview of the different occupational groups and employment statuses; challenges to regulating waged and self-employed workers; and legal strategies to support informal...
Describes the history and background of the process leading to 2015 ILO Convention 204 on the transition from the formal to the informal economy.
Discusses the role of strategic regulation in advancing the rights of informal workers, and provides examples of successful cases.
In many parts of the Global South—especially in Latin America—urban social movements have invoked the Right to the City as a slogan to advocate for and further a host of progressive claims and alternative visions of urban development. But what is the scope of such a right in law? And how might...
En muchas partes del Sur Global, especialmente en América Latina, los movimientos sociales urbanos adoptaron el derecho a la ciudad como lema para defender y promocionar denuncias progresistas y visiones alternativas para el desarrollo urbano. ¿Cuál es el alcance de dicho derecho? ¿Y cómo pueden...
Dans de nombreuses régions du Sud, en particulier en Amérique latine, les mouvements sociaux urbains, invoquant le droit à la ville, en ont fait un slogan pour défendre et promouvoir une foule de revendications progressistes et de visions alternatives du développement urbain. Mais quelle est la...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.