Waste pickers feature in documentary about forming IAWP
International Alliance of Waste Pickers’s Acting General Secretary, Lucia Fernández has featured in an Insider Business documentary exploring the essential role waste pickers pl...
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WASTE PICKERS
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The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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Waste Pickers, the Missing Piece in India’s EPR Puzzle
The Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (AIW) has released new research into Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and the impacts it has on Indian waste pickers. Haris Najib, the...
We advocate at the ILC that social justice must be at the heart of the Just Transition
In June, the 111th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland. During the two-week session, delegates of the employers’ organizations,...
Job Opportunity as Africa Organizing Support Assistant
About the role and responsibilities The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) is currently looking for an Africa based organizing support assistant to join our team and st...
Job Opportunity as Communications Officer
Extended time until August 7th, 2023! We are hiring an International Alliance of Waste Pickers Communication officer. Please share broadly. Submit before July 31st August 7th, 2023...
Job Opportunity as Interpretation Coordinator in Asia Pacific region
Extended time until August 7th, 2023! About the role and responsibilities The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) is seeking a highly skilled and passionate Interpretati...
RedLacre at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
WIEGO and the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers (RedLacre) will denounce in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the situation of the rights o...
Day 2 of INC-2: Make Just transition a core obligation of the Plastic Treaty!
An Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) is the space where countries discuss and decide in the plenary, in this case about the plastic pollution problem to agree on a lega...
Day 1 at INC-2: Make just transition a core obligation of the treaty!
This is a report to summarize what the International Alliance of Waste Pickers delegation is doing at the Plastic pollution treaty negotiations at INC-2 in Paris. Get to know our a...
Side event for INC-2: What must the treaty text contain to deliver a just transition?
The Just Transition Initiative and the International Alliance of Waste Pickers invite you to an INC-2 Paris 2023 side event: What must the treaty text contain to deliver a just t...
May Day 2023 is a time to recognize waste pickers as workers and to fight for a fair and just society for all
On this International Workers’ Day, we, the waste pickers – who collect and sort recyclable materials from the waste generated by households, businesses, and industries –...
Recyclers demand respect and continuity of work in Cerro Patacón
Members of the National Movement of Recyclers of Panama (MNRP) marched on Thursday, March 23, to the vicinity of the Presidency of the Republic, located in San Felipe. The recycler...
The transition of Kpone waste pickers into a cooperative: the journey so far
On August 16, 2019 the Kpone engineered landfill (in Accra, Ghana) site was in flames and about 300 waste pickers had to be relocated to an abandoned dumpsite nearby. The workers...
International Womens Day 2023 – Waste Pickers’ Celebrations
On International Women’s Day, the IAWP stands with the international community of waste pickers in celebrating the importance, determination, and strength of all women, specially...
International Waste Pickers Day 2023: leaders from 19 countries united in Nairobi to commemorate the international date!
Waste picker representatives from 19 countries gathered in Nairobi to participate in the International Alliance of Waste Pickers Coordination Meeting. The general objectives were t...
International Waste Pickers Day 2023
Today we join the world in commemorating International Waste Pickers Day by marching with waste pickers from 19 countries in Dandora (Nairobi) Kenya. We fight, we commemorate and...
Kenya And South Africa Announce Just Transition Initiative For Waste-pickers & Other Workers In The Plastic Value Chain
Just Transition Initiative builds on the Group of Friends of Waste-pickers launched a day before the INC began. “Kenya would like to take this opportune moment to inform the plen...
‘Group of Friends of Waste Pickers’ is inaugurated during the INC-1 in Uruguay.
Punta del Este, Uruguay – The Group of Friends of Waste Pickers was inaugurated today, during the first international negotiations committee (INC-1). The group, which will be a p...
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers at COP27 – Egypt
With the support of GAIA and WIEGO, the International Alliance of Waste Pickers will be participating in the COP27 in Egypt. The delegation will be in Sharm El Sheikh from the 1...
Solidarity Message from Public Services International (PSI) – Daria Cibrario
Dear sisters and brothers of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers (Globalrec). It is a real pleasure to address a short message to salute and congratulate you on the launch...