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  • Research Reports

    Organizando nas Ruas: Um estudo dos Catadores de recicláveis nas ruas da Cidade do Cabo

    Um resumo baseado no relatório de Koni Benson e Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, (ILRIG) – Grupo Internacional de Informação e Pesquisa de Trabalho

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  • Research Reports

    National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

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  • Journal Articles

    Il sapere urbano del clasificadores (The knowledge of urban recyclers) Lo Squaderno Urban Knowledges, Explorations in Space and Society

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  • Research Reports

    The paradoxes of informalizing street trade in the Latin American city

    Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Redemption – The Documentary

    From the documentary’s website: “They are New York City’s gleaners – struggling at the edge of our society. You see them on almost...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    WIEGO’s Key Messages on Public Spaces

    This document was prepared as part of WIEGO’s participation in the Habitat III process. It details WIEGO’s stance on public space. Subsequently,...

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  • Ntombikayise Gagayi, bovine head cook at Warwick Junction, Durban Post
    Access to Public Space August 12, 2019

    For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

    Inadequate infrastructure – particularly related to clean water and toilets – and the cost of accessing these takes a heavy toll...

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  • New York City food truck vendor Post
    Access to Public Space August 06, 2019

    En un barrio de Nueva York, contra la voluntad de la mayoría, los ricos expulsan a las vendedoras y vendedores ambulantes

    El carrito de barbacoa de Lin solía ser un negocio popular en el centro de Flushing, un barrio próspero en Queens, Nueva York, con una población...

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  • New York City food truck vendor Post
    Access to Public Space August 06, 2019

    Dans un quartier de New York, contre la volonté de la plupart des résidents, les riches expulsent les vendeuses et vendeurs de rue

    La charrette à grillades de Lin était autrefois une activité très achalandée au centre-ville de Flushing, un quartier prospère et à prédominance...

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  • New York City food truck vendor Post
    Access to Public Space August 06, 2019

    In a New York neighborhood, it’s the rich pushing out street vendors, not the majority

    “Lin’s” BBQ cart was once a busy operation in the center of downtown Flushing, a prosperous and predominately East Asian neighborhood in...

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