Region: The Americas

International Women’s Day 2022

For International Women’s Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic...

Norma Palacios, a domestic worker leader in Mexico City

Norma Palacios is one of the co-founders and leaders of SINACTRAHO, a domestic workers’ union in Mexico that seeks to raise awareness of...

Cooperatives Cushion Catadores Against Worst of Pandemic

Key Points Waste-picker cooperatives cushioned Brazil’s waste pickers (known locally as catadores) against the worst economic impacts of...

Inclusive Recycling in Waste Picker Cooperatives in Brazil: Impacts of COVID-19 Comparative Analysis 2020-2021

See related brief. Key Points: Cooperatives were able to quickly implement COVID-19 protocols in the sorting sheds, thus achieving greater...

66th Commission on the Status of Women

• March 13, 2022 - March 25, 2022
• Online

The 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council...

Connecting Waste Pickers During the Pandemic

WIEGO’s CataSaúde Viraliza project – an online capacity building course – was created in Brazil in 2020 as a response to challenges posed...

Conectando os catadores de resíduos durante a pandemia

O projeto CataSaúde Viraliza da WIEGO – um curso de capacitação on-line – foi criado no Brasil em 2020 como uma resposta aos desafios da...

Catadores de materiais recicláveis no Brasil: um perfil estatístico

O Brasil é líder no reconhecimento de seus mais de 281.000 catadores informais em cadeias de reciclagem e nas estatísticas oficiais do...

Social Protection for Informal Workers: Trends and Changes – Social Protection Briefing Note No. 3

In this brief, we discuss the changes in Bolsa Família, the Brazilian cash-grant flagship programme, in light of the recent developments...

Waste Pickers in Brazil: A Statistical Profile

Brazil is a leader in recognizing its more than 281,000 informal waste pickers in recycling chains and the country’s official statistics....