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La producción de desechos y basuras es el resultado ignorado de un modelo de desarrollo capitalista, altamente extractivista para los países en vías de desarrollo, un alto nivel de producción industrial en países desarrollados y en general con niveles crecientes de consumo, este último factor ocurre...
Employment Working Paper No.146
This chapter illuminates the crucial and often unrecognized role that developing world informal recyclers play in reducing the risks associated with climate change. “Project Pennsylvania,” a pilot program launched by four multinational corporations and a nongovernmental organization in Bogotá...
Información sobre la Asociación Nacional de Recicladores de Colombia
Informality has been at the center of the economic debate in Colombia as a result of the high levels prevalent in the country and its substantial increase during the 1990s. The informal sector includes a range of heterogeneous activities, from unpaid labor to a number of unregulated salaried jobs...
La ciudad de Medellín, después de unas décadas de aislamiento e involución caracterizadas por altos índices de inseguridad, violencia y segregación social, ha venido experimentando en la última década un proceso de renacimiento urbanístico que tuvo comienzo bajo el liderazgo del Alcalde Sergio...
Report of Conference Proceedings on the First International and Third Latin American Conference of Waste-Pickers Disponible en español aquí . Disponível em Português aqui .
Presentado en la Conferencia de los recicladores en Bogotá, Colombia Also available in English
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.