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Law & Informality: Past Activities
Engaging in Global Agenda-setting Processes For example, in 2016, we participated in the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel...
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Law Programme Engagement in Global Agenda Setting Processes
WIEGO’s Law Programme aims to challenge mainstream assumptions about law and informal workers — namely that informal workers...
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Law Exposure Dialogue Programme
EDPs allow researchers, practitioners and officials to experience firsthand the challenges that workers in informal employment face. The...
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Newsletter on Law & the Informal Economy
Latest from WIEGO’s Law Programme Subscribe to receive all our updates Law & Informality Highlights – October 2023
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Informal Workers and the Law
WIEGO works with four main occupational groups of informal workers: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers....
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Law and Informality
Law is an essential tool in improving livelihoods and lives. But legal and regulatory frameworks are designed for the formal economy. Too...
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Worker Story
Urban Renewal, Heritage Sites & Urban Livelihoods: Devi-Ben, Street Vendor
These are the reflections of Marty Chen, WIEGO’s International Coordinator, following an Exposure-Dialogue Programme held January 27-February...
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Waste Pickers and the Law
Waste pickers collect, sort, recycle, and sell materials that others have thrown away. They benefit urban health and sanitation, lower municipal...
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Street Vendors and the Law
Street vendors are an integral part of the world’s urban economies, contributing to vibrant retail markets and providing an array of...
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Home-Based Workers and the Law
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from in or around their own homes. Although largely invisible, they are engaged...
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