Despite terrorist attacks in Tunisia that killed 21 people days earlier, the World Social Forum was held in Tunisia for the second time in March. On the first day of the event – ...
In 1992, ten waste pickers were murdered in Barranquilla, Colombia, by professors and students that wanted to study their bodies. The victims – the majority homeless – were tak...
On April 9th, the organizations WIEGO, MNCR, NEPEM, INSEA hosted a meeting on gender and informal recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The event marked the closure of an explorator...
The landfill in the city of Estrutural, minutes outside the Brazilian capital and the National Congress, was the scene of another tragedy on April 2. Vanderlina da Silva Lopes, a w...