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  • Advocacy Materials

    Social Protection Responses Brief 7 – Spanish

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  • Waste Pickers in Colombia during COVID-19 crisis Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study October 08, 2020

    Recycling in Colombia: An Essential Service in the Time of COVID-19

    In a webinar from WIEGO’s Workers´ Voices series, Nohra Padilla—leader of the Waste Pickers Association of Bogotá and ANR—shares with other...

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  • Waste Pickers in Colombia during COVID-19 crisis Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study October 08, 2020

    El reciclaje en Colombia: Un servicio esencial en tiempos de COVID-19

    En un seminario virtual de la serie La voz de las trabajadoras y trabajadores, Nohra Padilla, líder de la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá...

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  • Waste Pickers in Colombia during COVID-19 crisis Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study October 08, 2020

    Le recyclage en Colombie : Un service essentiel en temps de la COVID-19

    Dans un webinaire de la série La voix des travailleuse·eur·s, Nohra Padilla, dirigeante de l’Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) et...

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  • Domestic workers at the International Labour Conference in Geneva Post

    Looking Back at 2019: Informal Workers Demanded Change — and Won

    In 2019, informal workers made some noise — in their home cities and at the highest global change-making bodies. They took to the streets,...

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  • Research Reports

    Waste Pickers’ Recognition as Public Waste Managers in Colombia

    Presentation prepared for the Conference “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South.”

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  • Working Papers

    Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

    The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

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  • Research Reports

    Informalidad y Urbanismo Social en Medellín

    La ciudad de Medellín, después de unas décadas de aislamiento e involución caracterizadas por altos índices de inseguridad, violencia y segregación...

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  • Research Reports

    Estudio en seguridad industrial y salud ocupacional para el caso del trabajo del reciclador en la calle

    La producción de desechos y basuras es el resultado ignorado de un modelo de desarrollo capitalista, altamente extractivista para los países...

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  • Research Reports

    Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

    Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of...

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