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The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance
Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management...
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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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Waste Pickers and Cities
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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