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Letter to the Prime Minister for safety of waste pickers and informal waste collectors. AIW.

Waste-picker & informal waste collectors of India seek safety measures from Indian government to safeguard against COVID-19

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia | Mar 23, 2020

To Shri Narendra Modi Honourable Prime Minister of India New Delhi Subject: Safety of the waste-pickers and informal waste collectors during Covid 19 pandemic. Respected Sir We the...

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Informal workers of India seek safety and financial support from the national government to survive Covid 19 Pandemic

Working People's Charter | Region Asia | Mar 23, 2020

Statement of Working Peoples’ Charter on Coronavirus Crisis If India, with its brittle economy and even weaker healthcare infrastructure, is to survive the current Coronavirus pa...

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The story of waste-pickers who became sanitation workers in Bhopal.

The State of Waste-pickers Turned Sanitary Workers in 2nd Cleanest City of India: Irregular Salaries, No Occupational Safety Gear and No Medical Leave

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Nov 12, 2019

The story of the second cleanest city in India-Bhopal and those who keep the city clean. The waste-pickers turned sanitary workers (Safai Karmacharis) in Bhopal are ill-paid, salar...

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India’s cleanest city Indore evicting waste-pickers from work

The Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers members | Region Asia | Dec 17, 2018

The Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers condemns exclusion of waste-pickers in Indore. To prepare for Swachh Bharat Survey 2019 (Clean India Survey 2019), the Indore Municipal Corpora...

Denunciations

Koushlya Bai in Buenos Aires talking with FACCyR waste pickers.

Indore’s Wastepicker in Buenos Aires

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Oct 29, 2018

Koushlya Bai is a waste-picker from Indore, associated with Janvikas Society. She is participating in the exchange of the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, as a representative of A...

Denunciations

Indore Waste Management Model is Incomplete Without Participation of Waste-pickers

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers | Region Asia | Aug 30, 2018

Letter by the Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers representatives to municipal authorities of Indore city to include waste-pickers in solid waste management of Indore city. 2nd August...

Privatization

Status of Waste-pickers in 2nd Cleanest City in India- Bhopal

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Jul 25, 2018

‘Last year a public toilet was set up. It did not have any water connection. The tanker was supplying water. Now they have created a park around the toilet. The toilet lac...

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