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International Waste Pickers Day 2024
Waste pickers from around the world gather on March 1st to commemorate International Waste Pickers Day, ahead of their formalizing as an international union. Waste pickers gather o...
Empowering India’s Waste Pickers: Nationwide Campaign Seeks Rights Recognition on International Waste Pickers Day
1st March is celebrated as International Waste Pickers Day in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed at the University of Barranquilla. For the...
Asia Pacific Waste Pickers Organise: Historic Meeting in Kathmandu Addresses Threats, Elects Leaders, and Prepares for Global Congress
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) is hosting its first-ever coordination meeting with waste picker organizations from across the Asia Pacific region, to address th...
Chile Recyclers in State of Emerency
Donate now to help recyclers’ families whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the forest fires in the Valparaíso region. Ver versión en Español Serious forest fires have kil...
Newsletter: Struggles and Victories: Waste Pickers on the Frontline. July-December 2023
Dear IAWP affiliates and allies, We are happy to start this 2024 by sharing with you an update of a very busy last quarter of 2023, of “Struggles and Victories: Waste Pickers on ...
IAWP affiliates were part of Global Labour School
The IAWP joined a Global Labour University event in Paris with delegates from 28 countries discussing union history, worker organization, feminism, and environmental issues to promote global solidarity.
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers supports FACCyR on the General Strike Jan-24th
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its affiliate FACCyR (Argentine Federation of Waste Pickers) and working class comrades in the historic...