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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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  • Presentations

    Women’s Empowerment in Emerging India

    These remarks were presented at the 2016 India Conference at Harvard.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Local Laws for Refuse and Recycling Collection

    This document contains a list of the local laws regarding curbside refuse and recycling collection services provided by the City of Buffalo. ...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Vancouver Street Vending and Licensing By law for Mobile Ice Cream Vending, Policy Report, 2003

    This report proposes amendments to Street Vending By-law No. 4781 to clarify and strengthen the regulations for the Mobile Ice Cream Vending...

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