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  • Legal Instruments

    Government Resource: City of Vancouver (Canada) Guide to Street and Sidewalk Use for Business

    City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, guide to laws governing various types of street vending, busking, and other forms of business...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Interview with Paulina Paucar Peña (Peru–FEDEVAL/CUT)

    In this interview, Paulina Paucar Peña, who sells clothes at a market in Lima, tells us how the trade union organising campaign has helped...

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  • Presentations

    The Informal Recycling Sector in Brazil

    Presentation at WIEGO Colloquium, ‘World Class Cities’ and the Urban Informal Economy: Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor

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  • Legal Instruments

    Law: Lei No. 6.586 – Classifica o comerciante ambulante para fins trabalhistas e previdenciários

    Brazilian law classifying street vendors for the purpose of labor and social security law

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Gender and Waste: Rethinking Relations for Empowerment

    Participatory methods are essential in exploring the many levels of submission and discrimination women waste pickers face and in creating...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Decreto Supremo No 004-2009-TR: Precisan actos de discriminación en contra de las trabajadoras del hogar

    Decreto Supremo Nº 004  sobre los actos de discriminación en contra de las trabajadoras del hogar.

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  • Legal Instruments

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

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

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Number 5: Steps Towards Compliance With Order 275 of 2011

    In “Steps Towards Compliance with Order 275 of 2011”, the fifth video in the series Chronicles of a Fight for Inclusion, waste pickers recount...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Inclusive recycling systems – video chronicles from Buenos Aires: Tania Alfonso

    This is one in a series of videos produced by Sonia Dias, WIEGO’s Waste Picker Sector Specialist.   In Spanish with English subtitles. ...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Palavra Ética Frei Gilvander | Tema : Reciclagem

    (English) In this interview, Sonia Dias, WIEGO’s Sector Specialist -Waste Pickers, speaks about the ILO’s Recommendation 204,...

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