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  • Legal Instruments

    Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Domestic Service

    This final rule revises the duties that fall within the term companionship and the major effect is that more domestic service workers will...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Street Vendors Unite: Recommendations for Improving the Regulations on Street Vending in New York City

    This paper outlines modest proposals for improving the regulations on street vending in New York City, developed with and on behalf of the...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Fact Sheet: Women Organizing for Fair Trade in Nicaragua

    Details of the MDG3-funded Fair Trade project in Nicaragua

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional y Trabajo del Hogar

    Este informe contiene los resultados de un proyecto de investigación de cuatro años sobre la salud y seguridad ocupacional (SSO) y los trabajadores...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Law: Bogotá (Colombia) Res DG-08807

    Law governing the administration of street vendors’ association operating in the city of Bogotá, Colombia

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Substitution of Animal Traction Vehicles in Bogota

    In 2003, the national transit code sought to eradicate animal traction vehicles or animal pulled carts that would have affected hundreds...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Reciclaje: Tres casos

    Para mejorar sus condiciones laborales y medios de sustento,  los recicladores tienen que ser incluidos en los sistemas de gestión de residuos....

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  • Legal Instruments

    Ley No 27475: Que Regula la Actividad de Lustrabotas, Perú

    Ley No 27475: Que Regula la Actividad de Lustrabotas, Perú

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Projeto repensando as relações de gênero na catação

    Projeto repensando as relações de gênero na catação

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Inclusive recycling systems – video chronicles from Buenos Aires: Pablo Schamber

    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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