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  • New waste disposal site Post
    Building Collective Power November 23, 2023

    Waste Pickers Demand Livelihood Protection During Dump Closures: Learnings from 3 Cities

    Experiences from Brasilia, Accra and Dakar show that the inclusion of waste pickers in dump closure plans and consideration for their livelihoods...

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  • Policy Briefs

    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,...

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  • Policy Briefs

    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...

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  • Waste Pickers in Accra, Ghana 2019 Post
    Global Advocacy and Negotiations August 16, 2023

    Challenging the Boundaries of Labour Law at the Labour Law Research Network Conference

    Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste...

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    Waste Pickers and Human Rights in Latin America

    This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human...

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  • On 4 May 2023 in Dakar, Bokk Diom waste pickers demonstrated against a government measure that will limit their access to Mbeubeuss dumpsite Post
    Building Collective Power July 17, 2023

    Bokk Diom Mobilizes Against Partial Closure of Mbeubeuss Dumpsite in Dakar

    The Association of Waste Pickers Bokk Diom demands that Senegal’s government keeps its promises of inclusion as the closure of West Africa’s...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Documento de posicionamento global: Uma transição justa para as pessoas trabalhadoras em empregos informais: Considerações para a 111.ª sessão do debate geral da CIT

    Neste resumo, a WIEGO e quatro redes globais de pessoas trabalhadoras em empregos informais, incluindo a HomeNet International, a Aliança...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Global Position Paper: A Just Transition for Workers in Informal Employment, prepared for the 111th session of the International Labour Conference

    In this brief, WIEGO and four global networks of workers in informal employment including HomeNet International, the International Alliance...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Não deixar ninguém para trás: Construir uma proteção do trabalho inclusiva num mundo do trabalho em evolução, 111.ª Sessão da CIT, 2023

    Damos as boas-vindas ao relatório de fundo da OIT (Organização Internacional do Trabalho), focado nas dimensões da proteção trabalhista,...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    111-я сессия МКТ, 2023 г. – Никого не оставляя позади: создание всеобъемлющей системы охраны труда в быстроменяющемся меняющемся мире

    Мы приветствуем справочный доклад МОТ, в котором основное внимание уделяется аспектам охраны труда, определенным формам занятости и определенным...

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