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Empowering India’s Waste Pickers: Nationwide Campaign Seeks Rights Recognition on International Waste Pickers Day

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers Feb 29, 2024

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...

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IAWP delegation, waste pickers from Nairobi group photo at Brazilian embassy after the event on Just Transition on November 15th in Nairobi.

Plastics Treaty advances on just transition, but faces critical challenges overall

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Nov 24, 2023

The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) at INC 3 A delegation of 10 waste pickers from nine countries, across five continents (Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, North and La...

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Uniting for Just Transition event. November 15th, 2023. Brazilian embassy. INC-3

Uniting for Just Transition: IAWP Outlines Vision for a Plastic Treaty

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Nov 15, 2023

The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) celebrated a year of the constitution of the IAWP and presented its vision for a Just Transition for Waste Pickers under the UN P...

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Banner INC-3 IAWP participation in Nairobi, Kenya

For a Just Transition under the Plastic Treaty. IAWP at INC-3 in Nairobi

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Nov 13, 2023

The International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) is participating in the upcoming Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) meeting to prepare a legal instrument to deal wi...

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IAWP delegates with members of other networks (SNI, HNI, IDWF and WIEGO) at ILC 2023 in Geneve, Switzerland.

We advocate at the ILC that social justice must be at the heart of the Just Transition

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Aug 18, 2023

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,...

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Protest action for lack of access to waste picker and other communities. INC-2, Paris, france. 2023

Day 1 at INC-2: Make just transition a core obligation of the treaty!

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | May 30, 2023

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...

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The transition of Kpone waste pickers into a cooperative: the journey so far

Owusu Boampong and Johnson Doe | Region Africa | Apr 04, 2023

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...

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South African, Kenyan and Uruguayan government delegates along with the delegation of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers. Picture Courtesy: John O. Chweya.

Kenya And South Africa Announce Just Transition Initiative For Waste-pickers & Other Workers In The Plastic Value Chain

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Dec 02, 2022

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...

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‘Group of Friends of Waste Pickers’ is inaugurated during the INC-1 in Uruguay.

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Nov 29, 2022

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...

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GlobalRec seeks meaningful participation of waste pickers in the first negotiations of Plastics Treaty in Uruguay

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Jul 15, 2022

The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers has submitted the position paper for the first intergovernmental negotiating committee meeting on plastic pollution. The submission recommends ...

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Delegation of Waste Pickers Attends the ad-hoc open-ended working group (OEWG) meeting held in Dakar, organized pursuant to United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) resolution 5/14

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Jun 27, 2022

Globalrec’s waste picker delegation participated in several reunions, side-events, press conferences and other projects from May 29 to Jun 1, reinforcing the importance of having a waste picker delegation attending global reunions like UNEA.

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Possibilities for a just transition of the informal waste sector (webinar)

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Apr 03, 2022

The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers participates in the webinar “Possibilities for a just transition of the informal waste sector” organized by UN-Habitat and the Norw...

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Waste pickers’ delegation attend UNEA for the first time and demand to be included in negotiations of the international treaty on plastics

WIEGO | Region International | Feb 27, 2022

A new legally binding international treaty on plastic pollution will be discussed at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). Globalrec’s delegation of Waste picker re...

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Call for Recognition of Waste-pickers in International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastics Pollution

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Feb 22, 2022

This declaration was read by Soledad Mella, representative of the Global Alliance of Waste pickers and president of the Asociación Movimiento Nacional de Recicladores de Chile (AN...

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ARO Wins WWF Award

African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) Wins WWF’s Living Planet Award

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region Africa | Aug 26, 2021

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has named Johannesburg-based non-profit organisation African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) and acclaimed South African scientist Professor Bob Scho...

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Jacquelina Flores Addresses the ILC Recurrent Discussion on Social Security Committee

International Alliance of Waste Pickers | Region International | Jun 30, 2021

For the first time in its history, the 109th International Labour Conference (ILC) is being held virtually due to restrictions and changes imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The it...

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Issue Series 1 Extended Producers Responsibility and Inclusion: Brazil’s Extended Producer Responsibility and its Interface with Waste Pickers

Sonia Dias | Region Asia-Pacific | Apr 09, 2021

The recycling industry since its early beginning had always relied on the work carried out by informal recycling workers in Brazil, the “catadores de materiais recicláveis” (p...

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