All posts in The Americas
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Audiovisual Materials
VIDEO: Inclusive recycling systems – video chronicles from Buenos Aires: Roberto Díaz
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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Audiovisual Materials
40 aniversario SIVARA
Más información sobre SIVARA (inglés)
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Advocacy Materials
Las tres propuestas del tercio del empleo en Perú
This document (in Spanish), developed by informal workers’ organizations from Peru, presents a set of recommendations in three main...
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Stories/Case Studies
Towards a model framework for a local level collective bargaining system for street traders: CTCP
Case study of CTCP, (Confederación de Trabajadores por Cuenta Propia) which is affiliated to FNT (Frente Nacional de los Trabajadores). CTCP...
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Legal Instruments
Brazil Law: Lei No. 6.586 (Brazil) – Classifica o comerciante ambulante para fins trabalhistas e previdenciários
Brazilian law classifying street vendors for the purpose of labor and social security law.
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Legal Instruments
Castellanos, Themis. Implementación de la Ley y Reglamento que Regula la Actividad de los Recicladores (Ley No 29419) en los gobiernos locales. Estudio de caso de la Municipalidad de San Luis y Santiago de Surco, Lima, July 2014
Informe con dos estudios de caso sobre mejores prácticas en la instrumentación de la Ley No. 29419 y su regulación en dos localidades de...
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Advocacy Materials
Design for Shoeshiners in CDMX – Team 6
Designs prepared for Mexico City Shoe Shiner’s Union by a group of design students from Mexico City’s IberoAmerican University. ...
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External Blog Posts/Op Eds
Nexos – Blog de la redacción: La contradicción de Mancera sobre el salario mínimo
El primer de mayo de 2014, día internacional del trabajo, el Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Miguel Ángel Mancera, hizo un “llamado...
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Legal Instruments
Law: Hawaii Act 248 – An Act Relating to Labor (Domestics)
Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights for the state of Hawaaii
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Legal Instruments
Beat That Ticket: A Guide to Important Street Vendor Regulation in New York City
This pamphlet provides street vendors with the necessary information for understanding and answering ticcketing questtions.
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