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  • Presentations

    El Reciclador: Un Profesional del Siglo XXI

    Presentado en la Conferencia de los recicladores en Bogotá, Colombia   Also available in English

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Inclusive recycling systems – video chronicles from Buenos Aires: Roberto Díaz

    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

    40 aniversario SIVARA

    Más información sobre SIVARA (inglés)

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Las tres propuestas del tercio del empleo en Perú

    This document (in Spanish), developed by informal workers’ organizations from Peru, presents a set of recommendations in three main...

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  • Stories / Case Studies

    Towards a model framework for a local level collective bargaining system for street traders: CTCP

    Case study of CTCP, (Confederación de Trabajadores por Cuenta Propia) which is affiliated to FNT (Frente Nacional de los Trabajadores). CTCP...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Brazil Law: Lei No. 6.586 (Brazil) – 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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  • Legal Instruments

    Castellanos, Themis. Implementación de la Ley y Reglamento que Regula la Actividad de los Recicladores (Ley No 29419) en los gobiernos locales. Estudio de caso de la Municipalidad de San Luis y Santiago de Surco, Lima, July 2014

    Informe con dos estudios de caso sobre mejores prácticas en la instrumentación de la Ley No. 29419 y su regulación en dos localidades de...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Design for Shoeshiners in CDMX – Team 6

    Designs prepared for Mexico City Shoe Shiner’s Union by a group of design students from Mexico City’s IberoAmerican University.  ...

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  • Report

    Waste Pickers Without Frontiers

    Report of Conference Proceedings on the First International and Third Latin American Conference of Waste-Pickers Disponible en español aquí.Disponível...

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  • Report

    Cities Alliance Exchange Report

    In August 2016, WIEGO and its local ally, Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (the Bogotá Waste Pickers Association or ARB), hosted a learning...

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