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The Climate Tragedy of Rio Grande do Sul Revisited from the Perspective of Waste Pickers
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Major Step forward for Informal Workers with New ILO Employment Categories
Changes to the International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE) were made in October 2018. WIEGO was proud to have played an important...
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Nuevas categorías de empleo de la OIT: Un gran paso adelante para los trabajadores y trabajadoras en empleo informal
Por Leslie Vryenhoek
WIEGO está celebrando los grandes cambios en la Clasificación Internacional de la Situación en el Empleo (CISE). Además...
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Q&A: WIEGO’s New Urban Policies Director Talks Migration, 21st-century Cities and What Inspires Her Research
This week, we sit down with WIEGO’s new Urban Policies Programme Director, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, to learn more about her background and...
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Senegal’s Dump Upgrading Doesn’t Have to Displace Waste Pickers
The theme of World Habitat Day 2018 is municipal solid waste management and creating “waste wise cities.” In this article, WIEGO’s Waste...
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Bangkok’s renowned street vendors march against evictions – and rally widespread support
By Chidchanok Samantrakul and Sarah Orleans Reed
After relentless evictions against their livelihoods, on 4th September 2018, Bangkok street...
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Can Waste Pickers Help Solve Delhi’s Towering Trash Problem?
With Avi Singh Majithia
Delhi’s Qutub Minar, the tallest minaret in the world, rises high above many of the capital city’s landmarks, but...
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Waste has Worth — and So Do the Women Working to Collect It
A step-by-step guide to building empowerment among women waste pickers
By Sonia Dias and Ana Carolina Ogando
Women across the globe share...
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Partnering with Street Vendors Led One Indian City to Model a Way Forward
Bhubaneshwar, India, provides a unique model for integrating street vendors into cities’ future plans. Through a highly collaborative and...
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How the Draft WDR 2019 Got it Wrong: Rethinking and “Relinking” Social Protections for the Future of Work
The World Bank’s recently released draft of the World Development Report (WDR) 2019 makes a controversial call to delink important social...
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Informal workers and taxes: What “tax justice” looks like from below
A growing tax justice movement has been exposing the shadowy ways in which elites and large trans-national corporations often avoid paying...
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