All posts in Legal Empowerment
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Building Collective Power June 17, 2024The Devil Is in the Detail: The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability and Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains
How close collaboration between homeworker organizations and key allies secured a huge victory: for the first time, EU legislation on corporate...
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Research Reports
Written Observations on the Request for an Advisory Opinion on the Content and Scope of the Right to Care as a Human Right and its Interrelation with Other Rights
WIEGO submitted written observations to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the right to care. The submission was developed...
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Toolkits and Guides
Applying International Labour Standards to the Informal Economy – Chapter 1: Convention 87 – Freedom of Association
To provide workers and workers’ organizations, including unions, the tools to use existing ILO conventions and recommendations creatively...
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Toolkits and Guides
Applying International Labour Standards to the Informal Economy – Introduction
To provide workers and workers’ organizations, including unions, the tools to use existing ILO conventions and recommendations creatively...
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Building Collective Power February 28, 2024Registering Informal Workers in India: e-Shram, an Opportunity Lost?
The launch of e-Shram, a national database of workers who earn a living in the informal economy, holds lessons for implementation going forward...
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Building Collective Power February 15, 2024Statistics as a Catalyst for Making Women Workers Visible
Renana Jhabvala, co-founder of SEWA and former chair of WIEGO, talks about the historical relationship between both organizations, and the...
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Organizing Briefs
‘Whose Law? Our Law!’: Critical Reflections on Legalization, Social Dialogue and Street Vendors’ Organizing in São Paulo
Key Points The institutionalization of social dialogue is an important step towards more just regulation of informal vending, but alone it...
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Organizing Briefs
Innovative Legislation in Australia Protects Homeworkers in the Garment and Footwear Sector
Key Points Outworkers in Australia’s Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industry are known to be particularly vulnerable to exploitation...
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Global Advocacy and Negotiations August 16, 2023Challenging the Boundaries of Labour Law at the Labour Law Research Network Conference
Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste...
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Law & Informality Insights
Waste Pickers and Human Rights in Latin America
This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human...
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