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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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  • Legal Instruments

    Government Resource: City of Vancouver (Canada) Guide to Street and Sidewalk Use for Business

    City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, guide to laws governing various types of street vending, busking, and other forms of business...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Behance: Hard Life (Paper Collectors)

    The aim of this project is to show the lives and work of a community often forgotten by Brazilian society, yet who are vitally important...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional y Trabajo del Hogar

    Este informe contiene los resultados de un proyecto de investigación de cuatro años sobre la salud y seguridad ocupacional (SSO) y los trabajadores...

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  • Presentations

    The Future of the Domestic Workers’ Movement

    Speech presented by Dan Gallin at the International Domestic Workers’ Federation, Founding Congress which was held in Montevideo, Uruguay...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Caracterización Socioeconómica y de Salud de Personas Recicladoras (Versión Amigable)

    [Versión Amigable] Este documento presenta de manera sintetizada una caracterización de las condiciones socioeconómicas y de salud de los...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: The Recognition, Promotion and Remuneration of Informal Waste Pickers

    This video, by WIEGO’s Federico Parra, describes the situation of informal waste pickers in Bogota, Colombia.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Decreto Supremo 005 91TR: Reconocen al trabajador ambulante la calidad jurídica de trabajador autónomo ambulatorio

    Decreto-Supremo 005 91TR: Reconocen al trabajador ambulante la calidad jurídica de trabajador autónomo ambulatorio, Perú.

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  • Presentations

    Mujeres Recicladoras

    Spanish language toolkit from the Waste and Gender Programme developed by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO),...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    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. ...

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