The Pandemic is Not Over
The rhetoric of an easing COVID-19 pandemic obscures the array of occupational health and safety risks that the world’s informal workers...
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Social Movement Lawyering: A Reflection on the Nature of Law and Lawyering Through the Lens of Informal Workers
Applying insights from critical legal studies, this issue of Law and Informality Insights explores how informal workers use the law to resolve...
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Social Protection for Self-Employed Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A rights-based assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis
Informal workers make up a large proportion of the “missing middle” in social protection – those who are not considered vulnerable enough...
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Cooperativas de catadores – colchão amortecedor contra os piores impactos da pandemia
• As cooperativas de catadores funcionaram como um colchão amortecedor para os catadores do Brasil (termo pelo qual são conhecidos no país)...
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Impactos da pandemia de Covid-19 sobre a Reciclagem Inclusiva nas Cooperativas de Catadores no Brasil: Análise Comparativa 2020 – 2021
Principais Achados: As cooperativas foram rápidas na implementação dos protocolos COVID-19 nos seus galpões, conseguindo assim maior credibilidade...
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Coura Ndiaye – a waste picker leader in Dakar, Senegal
Coura Ndiaye – or “Mother Coura” as people call her out of respect for her age and the number of years she has worked as a waste picker –...
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Cooperatives Cushion Catadores Against Worst of Pandemic
Key Points Waste-picker cooperatives cushioned Brazil’s waste pickers (known locally as catadores) against the worst economic impacts of...
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Inclusive Recycling in Waste Picker Cooperatives in Brazil: Impacts of COVID-19 Comparative Analysis 2020-2021
See related brief. Key Points: Cooperatives were able to quickly implement COVID-19 protocols in the sorting sheds, thus achieving greater...
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Five Ways Waste Pickers Built Connections During the Pandemic
During the pandemic, when waste pickers face harassment, eviction, stigmatization and a decline in earnings, building connections has proven...
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Connecting Waste Pickers During the Pandemic
WIEGO’s CataSaúde Viraliza project – an online capacity building course – was created in Brazil in 2020 as a response to challenges posed...
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