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‘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... Read More
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... Read More
Challenges and strategies to increase social protection financing for workers in informal employment This briefing note reviews the current debates about strategies to increase financing for social protection, which is essentially to enable... Read More
Workers in Informal Employment in El Salvador: A Statistical Profile, 2019-2021 This brief examines data on employment in El Salvador for 2019 to 2021 and analyzes the changes in employment. Read More
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... Read More
Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of... Read More
The Collection of Data on Waste Pickers in Colombia, 2012-2022 This brief describes the unprecedented census of waste pickers that took place in 2012 in Bogota, as mandated by rulings of the Constitutional... Read More
Informal Workers in Peru: A Statistical Profile, 2015–2021 This brief examines data on employment in Peru from 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and analyzes the changes in employment brought by the COVID-19... Read More
Defending Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods: Lessons from Litigation in Latin America Waste pickers have won several legal actions in Latin America over the past two decades. This edition looks at the lessons learned. Read More
Pessoas em emprego informal no Brasil: Um perfil estatístico Pessoas trabalhadoras do Brasil, pessoas trabalhadoras domésticas do Brasil, pessoas catadoras de recicláveis brasileiras, COVID-19 no Brasil. ... Read More
