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The Climate Tragedy of Rio Grande do Sul Revisited from the Perspective of Waste Pickers
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Inclusive Cities: What Have We Learned?
In Bangkok, Samlion Jintapo now runs a small grocery shop from her home. She used to supplement her income from the shop by selling cosmetics...
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Ciudades Inclusivas: ¿Qué hemos aprendido?
En Bangkok, Samlion Jintapo, lleva una pequeña tienda de verduras desde su hogar. Ella solía suplementar sus ingresos de la tienda vendiendo...
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Just Recycling: Changing Minds about Waste Pickers
Since 2007, WIEGO has worked with waste picker groups around the world that organize and represent people who support themselves by selling...
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Photo Essay Part II: Hidden Workers in Sunder Nagari
This is the second of a two-part essay on women home-based workers in Sunder Nagari slum in Delhi. Read part one here.When we visited Sunder...
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Photo Essay Part I: Home as a Place of Work
This is the first of a two-part essay on women home-based workers in Sunder Nagari slum in Delhi. Read part two here.
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In the Developing World, Waste Can Be a Vital Resource
This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post as part of the series “What’s Working: Sustainable Development Goals.
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Where Women are Leaders: Two Global Victories for the Working Poor
Ela Bhatt is Founder of SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association) and the Founding Chair of WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing...
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Donde las mujeres son líderes: dos victorias globales de las trabajadoras y trabajadores pobres
Por Ela Bhatt
Fundadora de la Asociación de Mujeres Auto empleadas
(SEWA, por sus siglas en inglés)
Presidenta fundadora, WIEGO
(Mujeres...
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Wither the “Labor” in Labor Day?
For many of us, the word “informal employment” conjures up images of street vendors, rickshaw drivers, or casual laborers in agriculture—all...
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Inclusive Growth and the Informal Economy
There is a growing consensus in the international community that economic growth needs to be inclusive: that it needs to be broad-based and...
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