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    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.

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    The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

    This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...

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  • Law & Informality Highlights - September 2022 Law & Informality Insights

    A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers

    This publication – A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers...

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  • Working Papers

    Urban Planning and Informal Livelihoods in India: An Analysis of Urban Planning Laws and Processes in Delhi and Bangalore

    This paper seeks to critically analyze the legal framework of urban planning in India and the challenges and opportunities it presents informal...

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    Social Movement Lawyering: A Reflection on the Nature of Law and Lawyering Through the Lens of Informal Workers

    Applying insights from critical legal studies, this issue of Law and Informality Insights explores how informal workers use the law to resolve...

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  • Resource Documents

    Social Protection for Self-Employed Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A rights-based assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis

    Informal workers make up a large proportion of the “missing middle” in social protection – those who are not considered vulnerable enough...

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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Press
    Global Advocacy and Negotiations November 09, 2021

    Garment workers from production countries call for new EU supply chain directive to stop exploitative working conditions

    Contact: Nicole Pryor – nicole.pryor@wiego.org, Graciela Mora – graciela.mora@wiego.org, Kendra Hughes – kendra.hughes@wiego.org Garment...

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    Global Advocacy and Negotiations November 09, 2021

    Open Letter to European Union Policymakers

    As the world reels from the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where supply chains and workers’ livelihoods were brought to a grinding...

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  • Resource Documents

    The Recognition and Protection of Informal Traders in COVID-19 Laws: Lessons from Asia

    This analysis covers COVID-19 laws in seven Asian countries, namely, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and...

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    Re-examining Legal Narratives on Vagrancy, Public Spaces and Colonial Constructs: A Commentary on the ACHPR’s Advisory Opinion on Vagrancy Laws in Africa

    This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’...

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