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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Acceptance Speech by Nohra Padilla, 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize Ceremony

    Acceptance speech by Nohra Padilla, who won the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for organizing Bogota’s marginalized waste pickers...

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  • External Blog Posts/Op Eds

    A gestão antiperspirante: rumo à pobreza inodora, incolor e insípida

    A Gestão Antiperspirante: Rumo à pobreza inodora, incolor e insípida Para Luciana Itikawa   Antiperspirante é a substância que inibe a saída...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    El Trabajo de Ciudades Focales de WIEGO en Lima

    La implementación de varias iniciativas de WIEGO en dos ciudades – Lima, capital de Perú, en América del Sur, y Accra, capital de Ghana,...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Hacia el cumplimiento del Auto 275 de 2011

    Hacia el cumplimiento del Auto 275 de 2011

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  • External Blog Posts/Op Eds

    Inclusive Cities – Shrinking Inequalities in Latin America — A Response to the Economist’s “Securing Livelihoods” Edition

    A blog post by WIEGO’s Waste Sector Specialist, Sonia Dias.

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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

    VIDEO: Claudia from Recicla Ourinhos (São Paulo), Gender and Waste

    Claudia from Recicla Ourinhos (São Paulo) cooperative talks about her participation at the workshop on women waste pickers, some of the topics...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Mexico’s Street Vendors Go Solar

    Reuters. Roadside food vendors in Mexico’s Oaxaca are re-fitting gas-powered food stalls with solar technology. It’s all thanks to efforts...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Ezequiel Estay from Chile

    In Spanish with English subtitles En español con subtítulos en inglés  

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  • Legal Instruments

    Chile Law: Ordenanza Municipal para el Comercio Estacionado y Ambulante (Santiago, Chile)

    Ordinance governing street vending in Santiago, Chile

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