Informal workers and just transitions: toward a new eco-social contract: issue brief 17

A transition to a more equitable and sustainable economy must address the needs and concerns of informal workers, especially women, minorities and migrants who have been historically marginalized and excluded from previous social contracts. This issue brief looks at how the universality and indivisibility of human rights can provide a framework for including all workers equitably in a new eco-social contract for a more just and sustainable post-Covid-19 world.