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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Exposure Visit to Brazil

    This is a report from SEWA on their exposure visit to Brazil.

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    ARB: Fighting for an Inclusive Model for Recycling in Bogota

    The Bogotá success demonstrates that the inclusion of waste pickers within the waste management system is possible through continuous effort...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Laura de RENAREC explica como trabajan con los diferentes niveles de gobierno

    Laura Guanoluisa of Red Nacional de Recicladores de Ecuador (RENAREC) expone sobre la importancia del reconocimiento del trabajo de los recicladores...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Un saludo de Gabriela Olguin sobre el Dia internacional de trabajadores a domicilio

    Gabriela Olguin, una lider de la Confederacion de Trabajadores de la Economia Popular (CTEP) y de la Cooperativa el Adoquin en Argentina...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Peru Ordenanza No 002: Reglamento del comercio ambulatorio en Lima, Perú

    Ordenanza No 002: Reglamento del comercio ambulatorio en Lima, Perú

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    The slow death of Ecuadorian Banana workers

    Magali Marega and Jo Vervecken draw on in-depth interviews of farmworkers in the Ecuadorian Banana farms, showing the health hazards of working...

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  • Presentations

    Fortaleciendo la voz de los trabajadores informales en las decisiones de política social en América Latina: Programa México – resultados del proyecto

    Programa WIEGO: Fortaleciendo la voz de los trabajadores informales en las decisiones de política social en América Latina

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Redemption – The Documentary

    From the documentary’s website: “They are New York City’s gleaners – struggling at the edge of our society. You see them on almost...

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  • Legal Instruments

    United-States-of-America-Law: Hawaii Act 248 – An Act Relating to Labor (Domestics) (United States)

    Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights for the state of Hawaii.

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  • Legal Instruments

    The Legal Regulation of Street Vendors in New York City

    This paper looks into the legal status of street vendors in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s and illustrates that despite persistent...

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