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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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  • External Blog Posts/Op Eds

    Nexos – Blog de la redacción: La contradicción de Mancera sobre el salario mínimo

    El primer de mayo de 2014, día internacional del trabajo, el Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Miguel Ángel Mancera, hizo un “llamado...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Government Resource: New York City General Vendor License Page

    New York City webpage on general vendor license applications (does not apply to food vendors, art vendors, or First Amendment vendors)

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  • Legal Instruments

    City of Bend Street Vendors Policy, 2003

    To provide consistent guidelines for vendors operating on public right of way in the City of Bend.

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  • Legal Instruments

    City of Charlottetown Street Vendors By-law

    This document contains the by-laws that govern street vending in Charlottetown.

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Cooperatives in Uruguay

    Link:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQJMbJ6_HM

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  • Presentations

    Reflexiones de una Usauaria de Encuestas de Hogares

    Taller de Estadísticas del Sector Informal en América Latina (OIT/WIEGO)

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Waste pickers in Colombia

    In “Order 275, dating from 2011,” a lead waste picker interviews two high-level officials, who explain the content of the constitutional...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Recicladores ante la destitución de alcalde Gustavo Petro

    A raíz de toda la situación que afronta el alcalde Petro por el esquema de basuras, conocemos de procesos donde se solicita la nulidad del...

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