Studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated that poor women have been the worst sufferers in terms of pay cuts and job losses. Women are the hardest hit also at the household level. They have to bear the brunt of constrained household budgets and have also encountered...

This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate non-state actors' influence over policy processes. It argues that policy change is a complex and iterative process, and explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against...

Among all categories of the informal sector, the protection of domestic workers forms one of the biggest challenges to labor laws. The inherent subjugation involved in the work, along with a typical nature of the work of domestic workers, makes them more vulnerable than other workers in the...