The Americas

VIDEO: Inclusive recycling systems – video chronicles from Buenos Aires: Jacqueline

This is one in a series of videos produced by Sonia Dias, WIEGO’s Waste Picker Sector Specialist.   In Spanish with English subtitles. ...

Implementación de la Ley y Reglamento que Regula la Actividad de los Recicladores en los Gobiernos Locales

Informe con dos estudios de caso sobre mejores prácticas en la instrumentación de la Ley No. 29419 y su regulación en dos localidades de...

Nohra Padilla, the Voice of Bogota’s Recycler at COP21

Nohra Padilla, a Colombian waste picker/recycler advocate and recipient of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Award, is interviewed by Cities...

VIDEO: Sérgio Sanchez from Argentina

In Spanish with English subtitles En español con subtítulos en inglés   From 28-30 November 2016, informal recyclers from Brazil hosted the...

Political Platform for the Rights of Domestic Workers in Mexico

This  Political  Platform  was  developed  during  the  1st Regional Exchange of Experiences of Women Domestic Workers: Convention 189 and...

Decreto Supremo No. 057-2004-PCM; Reglamento de la Ley General No. 27314 de Residuos Sólidos en Perú

Decreto Supremo No. 057-2004-PCM; Reglamento de la Ley General No. 27314 de Residuos Sólidos en Perú

Home-Based Workers Regional Meeting, Latin America

A compilation of laws and policies protecting home-based workers (wage-employed and self-employed), the document was prepared over five years...

Decreto Supremo No. 057-2004-PCM

Reglamento de la Ley General No. 27314 de Residuos Sólidos en Perú

Marcelina Bautista: IDWN Latin American Regional Coordinator and General Secretary of CONLACTRAHO [Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Domestic Workers]

Women’s Economic Empowerment: Voice for Domestic Workers

Nohra Padilla, Third Generation Recycler and Advocate for Organizing the Working Poor