Informal Workers in India Learn to Fight Legal Battles

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  • Title: Informal City Dialogues - Teaching India's Informal Workers to Fight Their Legal Battles
  • Name of website: Informal City Dialogues - Teaching India's Informal Workers to Fight Their Legal Battles

In a guest blog post, Marty Chen, International Coordinator of the WIEGO Network and a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, recounts how one group in India is giving informal workers the know-how to become their own best legal advocates.

 

Informal Worker, street vendor, in India

 

Devi-ben at her vending spot. In January 2012, she and some 3,000 other street vendors were evicted from the historic Bhadra Fort market, which the Ahmedabad City Corporation plans to convert into a heritage plaza.

 

Learn more about the Rockefeller Foundation's Informal City Dialogues project.

 

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