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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...

Threats

Violent Assault of Waste Pickers Near Genesis Landfill, Johannesburg

GlobalRec | Region Africa | Jul 07, 2018

On June 20th, at least 70 reclaimers (waste pickers) were violently attacked in a raid by the Red Ants, a private security company specialising in evictions. The attack took place ...

Denunciations

Condemnation of the brutal killing of a waste picker in Rajkot (India), demand for immediate action

carolina | Region Asia | May 28, 2018

This is the letter endorsed by members of the Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers condemning the killing of Mukesh Vaniya, a waste picker in Rajkot Rajkot, Gujarat (India). Dated: 25t...

Denunciations Press Releases

On Demonetization and Its Impact on Bangalore’s Waste pickers and Recyclers

Shreyas Sreenath | Region Asia | Dec 05, 2016

Important as are the standard measures of a community… its measure of value is by far the most important of them all. The measures of weight, extension, or volume enter only into...

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