WIEGO Launches Legal
Briefs Series
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WIEGO announces the addition of Legal Briefs to the WIEGO Publication
Series. Developed in part to meet requests from organizations of informal
workers and their advocates, these briefs describe the legal environment
facing informal workers, and analyze legal strategies and
precedent-setting cases that may lead to more secure livelihoods. Three
briefs are now available.
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WIEGO
Legal Brief No. 1: Legal
and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers' Demands: Lessons from India
by Kamala Sankaran and Roopa Madhav.
This brief draws on a
two-year study in India detailing how legal and policy tools have been
used or can be used to address the diverse concerns of different sectors
of workers in the informal economy.
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WIEGO
Legal Brief No. 2: Using
the Right to Information in the Informal Economy: A How-To Guide
by Megan Corrarino.
This practical guide
outlines how the right to information, a right that is broadly recognized
in international law and in most countries' national laws, can be used to
securing livelihoods.
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WIEGO
Legal Brief No. 3: A
Experiência de Advocacy no caso dos Trabalhadores Ambulantes em São Paulo
by Bruno Miragaia Souza, Juliana Avanci, Luciana Itikawa. This brief,
available in Portuguese, reflects on the legal case that contested and
ultimately defeated a ban on street vending by the São Paulo City Council
in May 2012.
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For more on WIEGO Law
& Informality visit our Law
& Informality microsite.
To access WIEGO's Legal Briefs, in addition to our Policy, Organizing,
Statistical, Technical and Budget Briefs, visit the WIEGO
Briefs page.
Please share news of this
new series with friends and colleagues - and please share your feedback
about the content with us: feedback@wiego.org.
Many thanks to the
authors, the publication team and Sally Roever for all their efforts in
getting this new series off the ground.
Caroline Skinner
WIEGO Publications Director
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