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  • Policy Briefs

    Climate-Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies: Waste Pickers’ Experiences from Brazil

    From 2022 to 2023, WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, in collaboration with the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, led an exploratory...

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    Waste Pickers and Human Rights in Latin America

    This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human...

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  • Waste Pickers in Accra, Ghana 2019 Post
    Global Advocacy and Negotiations July 25, 2023

    Challenging the Boundaries of Labour Law at the Labour Law Research Network Conference

    Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Documento de posicionamento global: Uma transição justa para as pessoas trabalhadoras em empregos informais: Considerações para a 111.ª sessão do debate geral da CIT

    Neste resumo, a WIEGO e quatro redes globais de pessoas trabalhadoras em empregos informais, incluindo a HomeNet International, a Aliança...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Global Position Paper: A Just Transition for Workers in Informal Employment, prepared for the 111th session of the International Labour Conference

    In this brief, WIEGO and four global networks of workers in informal employment including HomeNet International, the International Alliance...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Não deixar ninguém para trás: Construir uma proteção do trabalho inclusiva num mundo do trabalho em evolução, 111.ª Sessão da CIT, 2023

    Damos as boas-vindas ao relatório de fundo da OIT (Organização Internacional do Trabalho), focado nas dimensões da proteção trabalhista,...

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  • On 4 May 2023 in Dakar, Bokk Diom waste pickers demonstrated against a government measure that will limit their access to Mbeubeuss dumpsite Post
    Building Collective Power May 28, 2023

    Bokk Diom Mobilizes Against Partial Closure of Mbeubeuss Dumpsite in Dakar

    The Association of Waste Pickers Bokk Diom demands that Senegal’s government keeps its promises of inclusion as the closure of West Africa’s...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    111-я сессия МКТ, 2023 г. – Никого не оставляя позади: создание всеобъемлющей системы охраны труда в быстроменяющемся меняющемся мире

    Мы приветствуем справочный доклад МОТ, в котором основное внимание уделяется аспектам охраны труда, определенным формам занятости и определенным...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Position Paper: Leaving no one behind – Building inclusive labour protection in an evolving world of work prepared for the 111th Session of the International Labour Conference

    We welcome the ILO background report, which focuses on dimensions of labour protection, certain forms of employment and certain groups of...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Documento de posicionamento global: Alcançar uma transição justa às economias e sociedades ambientalmente sustentáveis para todas as pessoas, elaborado para a 111.ª Sessão da Conferência Internacional do Trabalho

    As redes internacionais de pessoas trabalhadoras na economia informal e a WIEGO dão as boas-vindas ao relatório da Organização Internacional...

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