All posts in Legal Empowerment
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Project
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,...
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Advocacy Materials
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...
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Resource Documents
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...
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Research Reports
Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Improving the Physical Environment (3)
This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...
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Law & Informality Insights
Re-examining Legal Narratives on Vagrancy, Public Spaces and Colonial Constructs: A Commentary on the ACHPR’s Advisory Opinion on Vagrancy Laws in Africa
This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’...
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Resource Documents
The Impact of COVID-19 Laws on Street Vendors and Market Traders: Trends and Insights from Latin America
This study examines the laws and regulations passed in response to the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America, and their impact on informal vendors,...
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Presentations
Strategic litigation in the informal economy
Discusses the role of strategic regulation in advancing the rights of informal workers, and provides examples of successful cases.
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Presentations
ILO Recommendation 204: Formalising the Informal Economy (2015)
Describes the history and background of the process leading to 2015 ILO Convention 204 on the transition from the formal to the informal...
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Presentations
Defining and regulating the informal economy
Provides an introduction to the informal economy, including: labour law and its scope; the definition of informal economy; an overview of...
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News
Legal Empowerment April 09, 2021Call for Abstracts
Contested Urban Spaces: Urbanisation, Law, and Informal Work is a two-year edited book project by WIEGO and IRGLUS that explores this theme...
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