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  • Workers in Informal Employment in Chile - A Statistical Snapshot of 2019 and 2020 Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Workers in Informal Employment in Chile: A Statistical Snapshot of 2019 and 2020

    This flyer examines data on informal employment in Chile nationally in 2019 and 2020, with a focus on six groups of workers who are mainly...

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  • Workers in Informal Employment in Peru - A Statistical Snapshot Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Workers in Informal Employment in Peru: A Statistical Snapshot of 2019, 2020 and 2021

    This flyer examines data on informal employment in Peru nationally in 2019, 2020 and 2021, with a focus on five groups of workers who are...

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  • Waste picker reads the comic book created for the Los Rifados campaign Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 14, 2023

    The Superheroes of Mexico City

    WIEGO’s Tania Espinosa Sánchez and Yuleina Carmona talk about the success of the Lxs Rifadxs campaign in Mexico City, which helped residents...

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  • Petrona Flores sells poultry at the Mercado San José in Lima Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Peru: A Statistical Profile, 2015–2021

    This brief examines data on employment in Peru from 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and analyzes the changes in employment brought by the COVID-19...

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  • Leonor Larraburu of the Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Economía Popular (UTEP) Post
    Building Collective Power April 11, 2023

    ‘We Are Not Alone’: Waste Pickers Worldwide Unite

    In this interview, Leonor Larraburu of the Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Economía Popular (UTEP) in Argentina tells us about...

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  • Resource Documents

    Efforts of Argentina’s Informal Waste Pickers to Finance Decent Work and Social Protection through Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation

    Based on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, organizations of informal waste pickers in Argentina have drafted a law that...

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  • Working Papers

    Did Mexico’s Seguro Popular Universal Health Coverage Programme Really Reduce Formal Jobs?

    This Working Paper uses the roll-out of Mexico’s Seguro Popular across municipalities to quantitatively assess its impact on private sector...

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  • publication thumbnail Law & Informality Insights

    Defending Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods: Lessons from Litigation in Latin America

    Waste pickers have won several legal actions in Latin America over the past two decades. This edition looks at the lessons learned.

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Pessoas em emprego informal no Brasil: Um perfil estatístico

    Pessoas trabalhadoras do Brasil, pessoas trabalhadoras domésticas do Brasil, pessoas catadoras de recicláveis brasileiras, COVID-19 no Brasil. ...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Material de Apoio Jornada Formativa Online Bonitas – Digital Tools Capacity Building Workshops

    Este é o compilado do material de apoio disponibilizado ao longo da Jornada Formativa Online do Programa Bonitas Wiego para as catadoras...

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