Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

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

Dogtown Redemption

A documentary trailer that tells the story of Americans who survive by recycling trash in Oakland, CA.   Visit the Dogtown Redemption website Redemption...

No hay fronteras para los que luchan, julio-agosto, 2013

Boletín de la Alianza Global de Recicladores, julio – agosto, 2013. Available in English here.Disponible en español aquí. Disponible...

2009 Public Interest Litigation to Appoint a Committee for the Development of a National Framework for Waste Pickers

Não Há Fronteiras para Aqueles que Lutam, janeiro-abril 2014

Boletim da Aliança Global de Catadores, janeiro-abril 2014   Read the newsletter in English. Leer el boletín en español. Leia o boletim em...