Women's Economic Empowerment

Waste Pickers Organize Into a Cooperative: Will Senegal Include Them in its Waste Management Plan?

Waste pickers at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite have set up their own cooperative in an effort to be integrated into the new waste management model...

It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center

Excerpt from the opinion piece, It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center by Darren Walker (president...

Gender Action Plan 2021-2023

The Gender and Waste project carried out, from 2019-2020, workshops on communications and leadership skills, feminism, and public policies....

Generation Equality Forum

• July 1, 2021 - July 2, 2021
• Online
  

The Generation Equality Forum is a global gathering for gender equality convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and...

Community Action Groups: Vital Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Delhi

Building Connections During the Pandemic: The Role of Community Action Groups in Addressing Hunger and Relief March 2021 By Roshini Diwakar,...

Jennifer Thaís Santos Fernandes–Catadora de materiais recicláveis

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Toward a Better Deal for Informal Workers: A Paradigm Shift Post-COVID

• April 13, 2021
• Online

Time: 9am–11am EST In partnership with Ford Foundation and UNU-WIDER, WIEGO co-hosted an event to celebrate the book and call attention to...

65th Commission on the Status of Women

• March 15, 2021 - March 26, 2021
• CSW65 Online Forum
  UN Headquarters, New York

CSW65 The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is...

‘As Bonitas’

English   Por Jennifer Thaís Santos Fernandes   Sou Jennifer Thaís Santos Fernandes. Tenho 25 anos, sou uma jovem negra e catadora de materiais...

‘The Pretty Ones’

Português   By Jennifer Thaís Santos Fernandes   I am Jennifer Thaís Santos Fernandes. I am 25 years old and I am a young black woman and...