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Engaging in Global Agenda-setting Processes For example, in 2016, we participated in the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel ( UN HLP ) for Women’s Economic Empowerment, which was created to define an actionable agenda for improving economic outcomes for women in the context of the...
Domestic workers provide essential services (e.g. cleaning, cooking, childcare, gardening) in other peoples' homes─which allows others to work outside the home. Thus domestic workers are an essential part of the labour market and the economy. The majority of the world's domestic work is performed by...
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from in or around their own homes. Although largely invisible, they are engaged in many branches of industry. In fact home-based work represents a significant share of urban employment, especially for women, in many countries and these...
Membership-Based Organizations - The Heart of the Law & Informality Project In 2006 WIEGO instituted a global project on Law and the Informal Economy with a pro-poor and pro-women perspective. Pilot programmes ran in India and Columbia. In partnership with membership-based organizations worldwide...
Boletín informativo sobre el Programa de Derecho de WIEGO Programa de Derecho de WIEGO El Derecho es una herramienta fundamental para mejorar las vidas y medios de sustento de las personas. Sin embargo, los marcos legislativos están diseñados para la economía formal. Muy a menudo, las leyes ni...
In Bulgaria, the Trade Union of Self-employed and Informal Workers (UNITY) has made significant gains advocating for homeworkers' labour rights using Convention 177 on Homework and the ILO reporting mechanism. Organizing home-based workers in Bulgaria Homeworkers in Bulgaria began to organize in the...
August 2020 This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. Have lawmakers recognized informal...
Because it often takes litigation to get city authorities to protect informal traders’ rights, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa ( SERI ) represented a group of street traders under threat of an interdict that would have resulted in a total ban on trade in parts of central...
WIEGO/IRGLUS book project – 2021-22 How do informal worker livelihoods interface with urban space, law, and the state in the globalized environment? Contested Urban Spaces: Urbanisation, Law, and Informal Work is a two-year edited book project by WIEGO and IRGLUS that explores this theme across...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.