Advanced Search
Search Results
566 results found
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...
Community paralegals –who are members of a community or group trained in the law to assist their fellow community or group members with legal issues– possess a combination of legal skills, contextual knowledge, accessibility and affordability that might prove well suited to support domestic 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, and 16 in Latin America. The aim of this project was to investigate whether lawmakers recognized and addressed the needs of informal workers as they responded...
Administrative justice is a branch of law that informal workers can—and have—used to secure their livelihoods. WIEGO offers training workshops and helps workers connect with legal advisors. Here’s why and how it works.
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.