GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS

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The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in more than 28 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Global Meetings

Name	Location	Year	Type
Rio+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development & The Peoples’ Summit	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2012	Climate Change
Global Strategic Workshop for Waste Pickers. Pune	Pune, India	2012	Organizing
South African Waste Pickers’ Meeting during COP17	Durban, South Africa	2011	Organizing
Clinton Global Initiative – Informal Recycling Sector Meeting	New York, NY, USA	2011	External
Waste and Climate Change Workshop	Johannesburg, South Africa	2011	Climate Change
International Solid Waste Management Association (ISWA) Workshop on Informal Sector	Buenos Aires, Argentina	2011	External
Dumpsite Workers’ Workshop	Mumbai, India	2011	Organizing
Festival Déchets et citoyenneté	Paris, France	2011	External
4th Interim Steering Committee of Waste Pickers	Bangkok, Thailand	2011	Organizing
COP17 UN Climate Change Conference	Durban, South Africa	2011	Climate Change
Waste and Citizenship Festival	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	2010	Organizing
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth	Cochabamba, Bolivia	2010	Climate Change
4th Congress of Waste Pickers of Latin America and the Caribbean	Callao, Peru	2010	Organizing
South Africa’s First National Waste Picker meeting	Gauteng?	2009	Organizing
Bonn Climate Change Talks	Bonn, Germany	2009	Climate Change
First International and Third Latin American Conference of Waste-Pickers in Bogota, Colombia	Bogotá, Colombia	2008	Organizing

Name

Location

Year

Type

Rio+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development & The Peoples’ Summit

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2012

Climate Change

Global Strategic Workshop for Waste Pickers. Pune

Pune, India

2012

Organizing