Launch/Exhibit

Street Vendors’ Rights in Public Space

• March 11, 2026
• Business Center Fontabella, 4.ª Avenida 12-24 Zona 10 HQ Fontabella, Ciudad de Guatemala
  In Person and Online

The Waste Commons: Waste Pickers’ Struggle for a Just Transition

• November 7, 2024 - November 8, 2024
• Online

Book Launch – Mapping Legalities: Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work

• August 5, 2024 - 06:00pm
• Hybrid

Book Launch: COVID-19 and the Informal Economy

• May 30, 2024
• Online

This webinar –co-hosted by UNU-WIDER and WIEGO– will serve to launch the book “COVID-19 and the Informal Economy: Impact, Recovery...

Book Launch: Between Fault Lines and Front Lines—Shifting Power in an Unequal World

• September 30, 2022
• Online

Join UNRISD and WIEGO for a global, virtual launch event for the book “Between Fault Lines and Front Lines—Shifting Power in an Unequal...

Activities in Accra Mark International Waste Pickers Day

• March 1, 2020 - March 5, 2020
• Accra, Ghana

In Accra, the events marking International Waste Pickers Day (March 1st) will last all week. Waste pickers will hold a press conference,...

COP25 People’s Summits & Waste Pickers

• December 5, 2019 - December 10, 2019
• Santiago, Chile and Madrid, Spain

Photo: waste pickers protest in Buenos Aires in 2018 During the 25th UN climate negotiations (COP25), waste pickers and WIEGO Network members joined...