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Next week we’ll be in Pune, India
In just a few days, waste pickers’ organizations from 38 cities in Africa, Latin America and Asia will gather in Pune, India for the 1st Global Strategic Workshop of Waste Pickers. They’ll discuss inclusive models of integrated solid waste management as well as the threats and challenges they are facing.
Nota à Imprensa – Isto é a Rio + 20?
Weekly News Round-Up – Noticias de la Semana 10 April / abril 2012
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Weekly News Round-Up/Noticias de la Semana – 4 April/abril 2012
Check the new type of News Round-up. One single post with all the news regarding waste pickers. Read it here in the blog or subscribe to the News Round-up newsletter.
Press Release: Residents and waste pickers protest against waste-to-energy incinerator in Ghazipur
![waste pickers in Mumbai, India, Dumpsite Workers](https://globalrec.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mumbai-1-500x333.jpg)
Newsletter March 2012: The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers
Video: First Congress of Latin American Waste Pickers in Nicaragua
A citizen’s hearing against the Ghazipur waste to energy incinerator
![aiw and global alliance at cop17 march](https://globalrec.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/aiw_newsletter_image-500x375.jpg)
Newsletter: Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (Feb. 2012)
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Dia Mundial dos Catador@s – Alex Cardoso, MNCR
![Marlen Chacon, wastepicker from Costa Rica.](https://globalrec.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/marlen.jpg)
Marlen Chacón from Costa Rica, Global Waste Pickers’ Day
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Global Waste Pickers’ Day Celebrated in Bhopal, India
![sawpa march cop17](https://globalrec.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sawpa_smaller1-500x333.jpg)
SAWPA (South African Waste Pickers’ Association) in solidarity with waste pickers across the globe
The South African Waste Picker’s Association (SAWPA) is in solidarity with waste pickers across the globe. We would like to commemorate the day of remembrance of all waste pickers around the world who die on the streets or landfills. Those Men and Women who we witness everyday being brutalized, beaten to death, shot, run over by trucks while trying to earn a living through waste recycling.
![congresso de recicladores en nicaragua](https://globalrec.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/nica_congresso-.jpg)
Global Waste Pickers’ Day 2012: workers organize to recognize and formalize their profession
Global Waste Pickers’ Day is celebrated on March 1 in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed. For the past 20 years since this tragic event, waste pickers/recyclers have continued fighting for recognition of their work.