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Project Reports
Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women: FLOW 2012 – 2015
This is the final report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands on the FLOW (Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women)...
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Journal Articles
Waste Pickers and Cities
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.
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Global Reports
Macroeconomic policy and women’s economic empowerment
This discussion paper is the result of a collaboration initiated in consultation with several members of the United Nations Secretary-General’s...
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Journal Articles
Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy
The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...
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Journal Articles
Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...
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Policy/Position Documents
Political Platform for the Rights of Domestic Workers in Mexico
This Political Platform was developed during the 1st Regional Exchange of Experiences of Women Domestic Workers: Convention 189 and...
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Policy/Position Documents
Proposals and demands of workers in informal employment for the new government of Mexico City
This Platform contains a list of proposals and demands to move towards guaranteeing the rights of informal workers. This document can also...
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Audiovisual Materials
A Beijing Recycler’s Life
This video follows recyclers in Beijing and shares the work they have been doing for 20 years. The video is in Chinese with English subtitles....
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Audiovisual Materials
Catadoras and Catadores: Working in recycling cooperatives
Production: André Carrieri and Jutta Gutberlet The video lasts 27 minutes and describes the work of organized recyclers (catadores) pervading...
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Project
Waste & Gender: Rethinking Relations for Empowerment
Little research exists about gender relations and divisions among waste pickers. A collaborative in Latin America has shed light on the multiple...
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