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  • Advocacy Materials

    The political work of ‘waste picker integration’

    Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) website

    SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers in India. These are women who earn a...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Stree Mukti Sanghatana

    Stree Mukti Sanghatana works with waste pickers within its waste management program.

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  • Presentations

    Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP)

    OHS Learning Meeting May 2011

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters
  • Advocacy Materials

    Social and Environmental Footprint of the Waste Industry flyer

    A flyer for an event of the People’s Summit in Rio, June 2012

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Lettre d’information OBA de WIEGO août 2012

    Newsletter de WIEGO aux organisations de travailleurs informels basées sur leurs adhérents (OBA), août 2012  

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Credits vs Carbon Credits

    Santu and Aasma Bibi are Delhi based recyclers. Both of them are also activists with Safai Sena, an association of wastepickers, itinerant...

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    SEWA Newsletter No. 43

    Contents:           Crux from the speech given by Ilaben Bhat at Georgetown University USA     Land Acquisition Problems of Urban Poor    ...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Waste Pickers’ Life & Livelihood

    The contributions waste pickers—the majority of whom are women—make to recycle and cut down on overall garbage burned or buried is being...

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