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  • Advocacy Materials

    Home-Based Workers Regional Meeting, Latin America

    A compilation of laws and policies protecting home-based workers (wage-employed and self-employed), the document was prepared over five years...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Government Resource: New York City General Vendor License Page

    New York City webpage on general vendor license applications (does not apply to food vendors, art vendors, or First Amendment vendors)

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  • Legal Instruments

    City of Bend Street Vendors Policy, 2003

    To provide consistent guidelines for vendors operating on public right of way in the City of Bend.

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  • Legal Instruments

    City of Charlottetown Street Vendors By-law

    This document contains the by-laws that govern street vending in Charlottetown.

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    First Congress of Latin American Waste Pickers. Managua, February 2012 (Video)

    The Latin American Wastpicker’s movement has grown from 5 to 17 member countries in the last 5 years. United and strong their demand...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Afya na Usalama Katika Maeneo ya Kazi na Kazi za Nyumbani

    (Swahili) 

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  • Legal Instruments

    Law: Bogotá Res DG-137-07

    Law governing street vendors’ associations in Bogotá, Colombia

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Población recicladora en Nicaragua: Una fuerza productiva y ambiental

    WIEGO, UCA y RedNica establecen una alianza para hacer una línea de base de la situación de los miles de recicladores que existen en Nicaragua...

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  • Presentations

    A Gender Perspective on Recycling

    A presentation, made at WIEGO’s 6th General Assembly, that has been piloted in Brazil to help empower women waste pickers. RelatedWIEGO’s...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Ley No 10674: Protección y asistencia en favor de expendedores callejeros de diarios, revistas y billetes de lotería, Perú

    Ley No 10674: Protección y asistencia en favor de expendedores callejeros de diarios, revistas y billetes de lotería, Perú

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