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  • Waste pickers outside the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 26, 2022

    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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  • Law & Informality Insights

    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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  • Resource Documents

    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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  • Advocacy Materials

    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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  • Resource Documents

    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 leader of Bokk Diom, washing bottles at the Mbeubeuss dump in Dakar, Senegal in January 2017 Worker Story

    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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  • Advocacy Materials

    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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  • Resource Documents

    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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  • Recyclables pile in Dakar, Senegal Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study March 01, 2022

    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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  • CataSaúde Viraliza Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study February 07, 2022

    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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