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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Struggles and Victories: Waste Pickers on the Frontline, May – June 2013

    Global Alliance of Waste Pickers Newsletter, May – June 2013   Available in English here. Disponible en español aquí.   Disponible...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Law: Ordenanza Municipal para el Comercio Estacionado y Ambulante

    Ordinance governing street vending in Santiago, Chile

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Global Waste Pickers’ Day: One day of celebration, 364 days of struggle!

    Global Alliance of Waste Pickers notes that “To celebrate Global Waste Pickers’ Day, we have compiled highlights from Struggles and...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    WIEGO Network Platform: Transitioning from the Informal to the Formal Economy in the Interests of Workers in the Informal Economy

    The platform sets out common core needs and demands for informal workers around organizing/labour rights, voice and bargaining power, legal...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Caracterización Socioeconómica y de Salud de Personas Recicladoras (Forma Completa)

    Este documento ofrece una caracterización de las condiciones socioeconómicas y de salud de los recicladores de base en los principales vertederos...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Não Há Fronteiras para Aqueles que Lutam! Agosto-Setembro de 2014

    Boletim da Aliança Global de Catadores, Agosto-Setembro de 2014 Leia o boletim em Português. Lire le bulletin en français. Read the newsletter...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Gender and Environmental Change Workshop

    Sonia Maria Dias, Sector Specialist for Women in Informal Employment, Globalising and Organising (WIEGO), is interviewed after the Gender...

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  • Databases

    Recicladores En el Mundo

    La base de datos REM es la suma de distintas base de datos con información sobre organizaciones de recicladores en Africa, Asia y America...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Ley General No 27314

    Ley General de Residuos Sólidos en Perú

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Nohra Padilla Speaks at the ILC

    Video. Intervención en Comité Tripartita en la OIT sobre la necesidad de incluir a las cooperativas en la Recomendación sobre la transición...

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