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  • Constnza Maritza Macana Mora is a recycler in Bogata News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 09, 2020

    Global Monitoring System (GMS): Waste Pickers and COVID-19

    Waste picker news round-up and summaries relating to COVID-19 – in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese

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  • Newspaper vendor Lima Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 08, 2020

    Informal workers on the frontlines of COVID-19: Providing critical services without adequate protections and pay

    Although many informal workers are now considered to be “essential workers,” that was not always the case. Before the crisis, ongoing harassment...

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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 07, 2020

    HOME-BASED WORKERS: A New Kind of Isolation

    Home-based workers who produce goods and services for local markets or for national and international buyers have always been isolated and...

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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 05, 2020

    STREET VENDORS: Essential Goods and Urgent Needs

    Photo: Feliciana Carcasi Luque sells food at the Mercado Modelo Pamplona in Lima, where some vendors who sell essentials have been allowed...

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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 04, 2020

    Focal City Delhi: COVID-19 response

    When India went into an abrupt lockdown on March 24, it triggered a high-profile humanitarian crisis as migrant workers scrambled to get...

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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Press
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 03, 2020

    The world’s 2 billion informal workers can tell us what they need to endure COVID-19 crisis

    April 2, 2020 As the global COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, WIEGO is focused on the devastating consequences for informal workers, who lack labour,...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Recomendaciones para la prevención de la enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) entre las trabajadoras y los trabajadores del sector de los residuos sólidos

    Este documento establece orientaciones específicas para las personas recicladoras sobre cómo protegerse contra la exposición a la enfermedad...

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  • headloader in Ahmedabad Post
    Building Collective Power April 03, 2020

    To die from hunger or the virus: An all too real dilemma for the poor in India (and elsewhere)

    The double tsunami of the pandemic and lockdown in India will continue to have devastating impacts on the health and livelihoods of the poor,...

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  • Accra Street Vendor at Night Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 01, 2020

    Cette nouvelle crise fait ressortir les vieilles injustices dans l’économie mondiale

    Les rapports sinistres sur les systèmes de santé débordés d’ici et d’autres parties de l’Europe, ainsi que de l’Amérique du Nord, ont dominé...

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  • Accra Street Vendor at Night Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study April 01, 2020

    Esta nueva crisis acentúa las antiguas injusticias de la economía global 

    La cobertura de COVID-19 por parte de muchos de los medios de comunicación más influyentes del mundo ha estado dominada por informes desalentadores...

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