Organization and Representation Programme

Human rights violations signal urgent need to improve waste pickers’ working conditions in Latin America

For waste pickers, harassment is a part of daily life, also before the pandemic. Our reports on human rights in Latin America serve as a...

Reducing Waste in Coastal Cities through Inclusive Recycling

The RWCC Project Waste pickers worldwide contribute significantly in preventing ocean waste pollution by recycling and reusing materials...

Globalization and Rural Food Processing by Andean Women of Peru and Bolivia

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

This book is organised around some of the key themes related to the organising of waste pickers and their integration into municipal waste...

Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

WIEGO, its work on waste-pickers and the first World Encounter of Waste-pickers in Colombia, 2008

Trade unions and the challenge of the informalisation of work

Abstract:

Hacia una alianza global de recicladores (Towards a Global Alliance of Wastepickers)

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

Street vendors have occupied public space in central Lima since the colonial period, and the first recorded attempt to regulate street trade...

Solidarity: Selected Essays by Dan Gallin

From Amazon: “A collection of 19 essays by Dan Gallin, the former general secretary of the Geneva-based International Union of Foodworkers...