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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Crónicas de una lucha por la inclusión: Sustitución de Vehículos de Tracción Animal – Bogotá 2014

    En el año 2003, el Código Nacional de Transito pretendía eliminar los vehículos de tracción animal. Esto afectaba a miles de recicladores...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Myths & Facts About Home-Based Workers

    Home-based work is a global phenomenon found in countries rich and poor across many industries. This document examines common myths about...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Ley No 27597: Que Modifica Ley 27475 Lustrabotas, Perú 2001

    Ley No 27597: Que Modifica Ley 27475 Lustrabotas, Perú 2001

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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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  • Stories/Case Studies

    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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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Laura de RENAREC explica como trabajan con los diferentes niveles de gobierno

    Laura Guanoluisa of Red Nacional de Recicladores de Ecuador (RENAREC) expone sobre la importancia del reconocimiento del trabajo de los recicladores...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Un saludo de Gabriela Olguin sobre el Dia internacional de trabajadores a domicilio

    Gabriela Olguin, una lider de la Confederacion de Trabajadores de la Economia Popular (CTEP) y de la Cooperativa el Adoquin en Argentina...

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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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