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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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Uruguay Takes the Lead to Protect Domestic Workers
Providing protection for the world’s millions of domestic workers has taken a major step forward. In April 2012, Uruguay became the...
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The Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal City Dialogues
According to the website, “the Informal City Dialogues is a year-long project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted...
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Collective Bargaining and Domestic Workers in Uruguay
Through the collective bargaining process, the Sindicato Unico de Trabajadoras Domsticas (SUTD) has been able to win rights including a seniority...
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Género y Residuos: Reformulando las Relaciones para el Empoderamiento
Los métodos participativos son esenciales para explorar los varios niveles de sumisión y discriminación que las recicladoras enfrentan, así...
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OIT Ley No 27986: Ley de los trabajadores del hogar: texto del convenio sobre el trabajo decente para las trabajadoras y los trabajadores domésticos
OIT convenio sobre la ley de los trabajadores del hogar: texto del convenio sobre el trabajo decente para las trabajadoras y los trabajadores...
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Ordenanza No 246 sobre el Comercio ambulatorio en el Distrito del Rimac, Perú
Ordenanza No 246 sobre el Comercio ambulatorio en el Distrito del Rimac, Perú
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Waste pickers of Brazil unite
In Ourinhos, Brazil, waste pickers got organised, got out of the informal economy and, in the process, managed to secure a better standard...
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Exposure Visit to Brazil
This is a report from SEWA on their exposure visit to Brazil.
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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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