Report on Waste Pickers at 2013 ILO Conference

Since 1919, the United Nation’s International Labour Organization (commonly known as the ILO) has hosted its annual International Labour Conference (ILC).

The theme of this year’s Conference, held throughout 3 weeks of June in Geneva, Switzerland was, “Building a Future with Decent Work.”

While this same theme was featured the last time at the 1990 Conference, the ILO acknowledges that things have changed dramatically and that it was time to revisit the discussion. One of the key discussions at the Conference was “Sustainable Development, Green Jobs and Decent Work”.