Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

Informal Workers in Focus Fact Sheet Collection

Contains fact sheets on Street Vendors, Waste Collectors, and Home-based Workers (also available separately)

Community Sanitation and Recycling Organization (CSARO)

From the website: Community Sanitation and Recycling Organization (CSARO) is a Cambodian Non-Governmental organization (NGO) established...

Waste Pickers Perspective

OHS Learning Meeting May 2011

Lettre d’information OBA de WIEGO juillet 2011

Juillet 2011

Graduation Speech at Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA and a founding member of WIEGO, was the speaker at the graduation for the Walsh School of Foreign Service. She...

Boletín Informativo de WIEGO para OBM agosto 2012

Boletín Informativo de WIEGO para Organizaciones con Base de Miembros (OBM) – agosto 2012.   Read the newsletter in English  

The Toughest Place to be a Binman – Jakarta

London bin man Wilbur Ramirez struggles on his first day working in Jakarta, in the Toughest Place to be a Binman. The program was broadcast...

SEWA Newsletter No. 44

Contents:       Women’s menstrual cycles are a “plague” : Findings from a SEWA study     SEWA’s agricultural campaigns    ...

Ghazipur Landfill Waste Pickers New Delhi

Shows the working conditions of waste pickers in one of New Delhi’s major landfills.

Waste Pickers & Climate Change: Uruli Landill, India