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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Finding a Collective Voice to Become Visible: The Creation of the RENAREC

    Story prepared by: Olga Abizaid, WIEGO with Felipe Toledo, Fundación AVINA, Yolanda Bueno, Fundación Alianza, and María Llanes (former President...

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  • Presentations

    Gathering Occupational Health Data from Informal Workers – The Brazilian Experience

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  • Legal Instruments

    Law: Lei No. 6.586 – Classifica o comerciante ambulante para fins trabalhistas e previdenciários

    Brazilian law classifying street vendors for the purpose of labor and social security law

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Gender and Waste: Rethinking Relations for Empowerment

    Participatory methods are essential in exploring the many levels of submission and discrimination women waste pickers face and in creating...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Decreto Supremo No 004-2009-TR: Precisan actos de discriminación en contra de las trabajadoras del hogar

    Decreto Supremo Nº 004  sobre los actos de discriminación en contra de las trabajadoras del hogar.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Ordenanza No 002: Reglamento del comercio ambulatorio en Lima, Perú

    Ordenanza No 002: Reglamento del comercio ambulatorio en Lima, Perú

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Number 5: Steps Towards Compliance With Order 275 of 2011

    In “Steps Towards Compliance with Order 275 of 2011”, the fifth video in the series Chronicles of a Fight for Inclusion, waste pickers recount...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Inclusive recycling systems – video chronicles from Buenos Aires: Tania Alfonso

    This is one in a series of videos produced by Sonia Dias, WIEGO’s Waste Picker Sector Specialist.   In Spanish with English subtitles. ...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Palavra Ética Frei Gilvander | Tema : Reciclagem

    (English) In this interview, Sonia Dias, WIEGO’s Sector Specialist -Waste Pickers, speaks about the ILO’s Recommendation 204,...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Gloria habla de la importancia de la Ordenanza sobre comercio ambulatorio en Lima

    Gloria Solorzano Espinosa de la Red Nacional de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras Autoempleados (RENATTA) en Perú habla de la importancia de la...

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