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Comunicado Urgente: Reciclador deprivado de un dia de trabajo por la Embajada

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 21, 2011

POR FAVOR LEA: Carta del grupo Chintan (traduzido por Google Translate) Queridos amigos y colaboradores de Chintan, Un diplomático de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos Embajada en Nueva...

Press Releases

For immediate release: Waste picker deprived of a day’s work by the Embassy of UAE

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 21, 2011

PLEASE READ: Letter from Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group Dear Friends and Supporters of Chintan, A UAE Embassy diplomat in Delhi forcibly impounded the cycle ricksh...

Press Releases

“New waste management plans endanger Indian ragpickers” (DW-World)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 21, 2011

For the last five years, Manubhan, 18, and his brother Pramod, 16, have been up at the crack of dawn heading for houses and restaurants to collect recyclable items. They venture in...

Incineration Press

“Por no respetar derechos de los recicladores, Corte tumba licitación de basuras en Bogotá” (Noticias Caracol)

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 20, 2011

Henao descartó problemas en la recolección de basuras en Bogotá. “En este momento están vigentes unos contratos para recoger hasta el último kilo de basura que haya en c...

Press Privatization

“Los cartoneros inauguran planta” (Noticias Urbanas)

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 19, 2011

Hace una década la crisis económica llevó a miles de personas a sobrevivir de la recolección de residuos. Y este domingo a las 18 horas aquellos que eran parias inauguran el pr...

Press

14/15 Dez – Seminário Internacional de Coleta Seletiva – São Paulo, Brasil / Dec. 14/15 – International Seminar on Selective Collection – São Paulo, Brazil

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 13, 2011

Português: O objetivo deste evento é apresentar os resultados obtidos ao longo destes anos e analisar as perspectivas da coleta seletiva com inclusão de catadores, tendo em vist...

Events

“No to dirty CDM” by Payal Parekh (in Spanish & English)

deia Dec 13, 2011

Unlike other UN Climate Conferences there have been very few creative actions; in large part due to the fact that actions are permitted in two small areas and UN police are harassing observers for handing out flyers!

Nevertheless there have been two great actions against dirty Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project types, incineration and coal. Yesterday, wastepickers that belong to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) staged a vibrant action. Read more

Climate Change Press

Slideshow & Videos – Waste Pickers featured on Climate Change Studio at COP17

deia Dec 13, 2011

On the last day of COP17, Suman More and Sushila Sabale of India, Neil Tangri, with GAIA, and Nomacebo Mbayo and Simon Mbata, of the South African Waste Pickers’ Association,...

Climate Change Press

Slideshow – The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers make their voices heard at COP17

deia Dec 13, 2011

In the sterile environment of COP17, the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers called attention to their crucial role as climate change mitigators, demanding a just Green Climate Fund a...

Climate Change

Video – “While indecision reigned” (Down to Earth)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 12, 2011

Do not support companies that burn waste, said the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers at a protest demonstration during the COP17 at Durban.

Climate Change Press

“Recyclage local contre multinationales: la guerre des déchets aura-t-elle lieu?” (Basta Mag)

deia Dec 09, 2011

DURBAN – 3 à 5 % des émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre sont liées au secteur des déchets. Le travail mené par les récupérateurs et recycleurs contribue à r...

Climate Change Press

Report from Brazil

deia Dec 08, 2011

Magdalena Donoso, Latin American Coordinator for GAIA BRASÍLIA – From the point of view of our interest as organizations that fight against incineration, just talking about ...

Climate Change

Movimiento y Articulación: La Esperanza de Brasil en Materia de Residuos

deia | Region Latin America | Dec 08, 2011

Magdalena Donoso, Coordinación Latinoamericana de GAIA

Brasilia, diciembre 2011

Desde el punto de vista de nuestro interés como organizaciones que luchan contra la incineración, basta instalarse a hablar sobre la Ley Nacional de Residuos Sólidos de Brasil, ratificada en agosto del año pasado, para abordar ampliamente lo negativo y desgastador que ha sido el Artículo 9 de la Ley, que abrió la puerta a esa industria.

Climate Change

“Indian recyclers lose jobs to green economy” (Climate Change Media Partnership)

deia | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 08, 2011

DURBAN – The big red bindi, the green glass bangles and the colorful sari notwithstanding, Suman More appears frail, tired and a little overwhelmed by all the hustle and bus...

Climate Change Press

“Down to Zero” (The Rainbow Inside)

deia Dec 07, 2011

DURBAN – Visit any dump site or landfill in the developing world and you will see people picking through the waste, alongside flocks of birds doing the same. Most of us who l...

Climate Change Press

“Cut out the middlemen, say waste pickers” (SOWETAN live)

deia Dec 06, 2011

DURBAN – Representatives of the organisation demonstrated yesterday outside Durban’s Inkosi Albert Luthuli convention centre where the COP17 climate talks are being he...

Climate Change Press

“Wastepickers given the cold shoulder outside ICC” (The Mercury)

deia Dec 06, 2011

DURBAN – An NGO which was prohibited from displaying placards that had not been pre-approved on the sidelines of the COP17 talks believe that their right to freedom of spee...

Climate Change Press

“Thousands March at U.N. Climate Summit in Durban to Demand Climate Justice” (Democracy Now!)

deia Dec 06, 2011

DURBAN – We are broadcasting this week from Durban, South Africa, where critical talks on fighting climate change have entered their second week. Key issues at the United Na...

Climate Change Press

“Waste Pickers Clean Up Our Mess on the Ground and in the Air” (allAfrica.com)

deia Dec 06, 2011

DURBAN — Still thinking about wretched scavengers surviving on the tips? Can that thought. They have a name: waste pickers, and they exist in their millions in the world. They ar...

Climate Change Press

Video – “Waste pickers can play a role in climate change mitigation” (IPS Inter Press Service)

deia Dec 06, 2011

A slideshow of the waste pickers of the Global Alliance as they engage in activities at COP17 to fight against the Clean Development Mechanism and for a fair Green Climate Fund. Wa...

Climate Change Press

Pagination