Waste Pickers

Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil

This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory...

Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...

Video Depicting Waste Pickers in Paris in 1929

A video depicting waste pickers in Paris in 1929.   Link: www.mheu.org/fr/chiffonniers/zone.aspx

MNCR on Youtube

Title: Essa Gente Vai Longe…. – Parte 2 Documentário MNCR Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X5532wuDm8 Parte 1 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtUp9ZSQ7lg&feature ...

Colombia Constitutional Court document re suspension of public bidding

An English translation of the resolution suspending the city’s tendering process in order to protect the rights of recyclers and the...

Boletín Informativo de WIEGO para OBM abril 2012

Organizing Reclaimers in Tshwane, South Africa: Lessons from the Top Down and Bottom Up Experiences

Summary of WIEGO Organizing Brief 5 (English)

Robert Neuwirth: The Power of the Informal Economy

TED Summary:Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers,...

Boletim Informativo do Cidades Inclusivas Janeiro 2013

Afrontando la Crisis: Recesión Persistente, Inflación Creciente y la Fuerza Laboral de la Economía Informal (Ficha Técnica)

Report available in English here.Relatório disponível em português aqui.Informe disponible en español aquí.