Region: The Americas

How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People

By keeping corporations accountable for the waste they produce and providing affordable goods and services to working class people, recyclers...

Overturning the Productivity Mandate: Putting People at the Centre

It is a myth that cooperatives, which put people at the centre, are not a viable alternative to the current economic system because they...

Written Observations on the Request for an Advisory Opinion on the Content and Scope of the Right to Care as a Human Right and its Interrelation with Other Rights

WIEGO submitted written observations to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the right to care. The submission was developed...

Statistics on Waste Pickers: A Case Studies Guide

This report draws on the experiences and efforts of organizations of waste pickers to develop and make data on them available to policymakers...

Monotax and Social Monotax in Uruguay

The report –produced in collaboration between the Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising (WIEGO) network and the International...

Da Pesquisa Climática à Ação Climática: Mapeamento dos Impactos das Mudanças Climáticas nas Pessoas Catadoras Brasileiras

COVID-19 Impacts on Employment in Mexico: A Statistical Snapshot of 2020-2023

Impactos das mudanças climáticas e estratégias de adaptação: Experiências de catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis do Brasil

Principais conclusões: Experiências com eventos climáticos sérios: Muitas catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis (91%) vivenciaram,...

Climate-Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies: Waste Pickers’ Experiences from Brazil

From 2022 to 2023, WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, in collaboration with the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, led an exploratory...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Employment in Mexico, 2020-2023