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- New General Secretary Appointed by International Alliance of Waste Pickers (07/2024)
- Announcement for the post of General Secretary of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers (05/2024)
- Congress Day 5: Advocacy Day (05/2024)
- Congress Day 4: Field visits (05/2024)
- Congress Day 3: Approval of resolutions and presentation at the CGT (05/2024)
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Argentina
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- Statement of Denouncement and Repudiation of the Police Repression Exercised by the Argentine Government against FACCyR (06/2024)
- The International Alliance of Waste Pickers supports FACCyR on the General Strike Jan-24th (01/2024)
- FACCyR presented at ILO (12/2021)
- Waste pickers join forces to fight climate crisis in Argentina (12/2021)
- Over 2000 Urban Waste Pickers Join the Collective Market System in Buenos Aires (10/2019)
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Brazil
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- MNCR leader Alex Cardoso launches his book: Do Lixo a Bixo (12/2021)
- National mobilization seeks priority in vaccination for Catadores (12/2021)
- Protests in 20 cities in Minas Gerais condemn garbage incineration (12/2021)
- Waste pickers from São Caetano do Sul abandoned amid the crisis (10/2020)
- Let waste pickers work in Porto Alegre (10/2020)
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Canada
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- Binners’ Project offers a new service: Waste Audits (12/2021)
- The Coffee Cup Revolution starts in Vancouver (11/2017)
- National Pride: The Valoristes Cooperative celebrates a social and ecological St. Jean Day (07/2017)
- Calgary's bottle pickers: working in their own way (07/2016)
- I Belong Here: a Vancouver binner shares his struggle (04/2016)
Updates from
Chile
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- ANARCH addresses the implementation of the new packaging law (12/2021)
- Regional assemblies to organize the national movement in Chile (12/2021)
- In Memoriam: Exequiel Estay Tapia (01/2020)
- "We are the faces of recycling": the 5th Chilean Waste Pickers' Conference (01/2015)
- Red Lacre representatives show solidarity with Chilean landfill workers (08/2013)
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Colombia
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- The ANR continues to fight for the rights of waste pickers in Colombia (12/2021)
- YoSoyLiliana: Condemnation of violence against a waste picker in Colombia (10/2020)
- Waste Pickers in Colombia Build a Second House for Waste Pickers (10/2019)
- Charges Filed by the Municipality of Rionegro against 'Planeta Verde' are Dismissed (10/2019)
- Los rostros del reciclaje (03/2019)
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Dominican Republic
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Ecuador
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- The Third Zero Waste Meeting Ecuador 2019 was Held in Quito (10/2019)
- RENAREC Celebrates 10 Years Organizing Grass-root Waste Pickers (01/2019)
- Call from RENAREC to stop the removal of the redeemable tax on plastic bottles (IRBP) (07/2018)
- Scoping Exercise on Gender & Rights with RENAREC (06/2016)
- A victory for the organized waste pickers of Ecuador (04/2016)
Updates from
France
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- Big win for waste pickers in Paris, major lessons learned from the South: a global movement (11/2019)
- Amelior becomes member of REFER (Francilian Reuse Network) and other updates (12/2017)
- Amelior opens cooperative shop and more in Paris (07/2017)
- Le réemploi et le recyclage sont entre nos mains! (02/2017)
- Waste pickers at Cop21: Creating solutions for climate change (01/2016)
Updates from
Ghana
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- The transition of Kpone waste pickers into a cooperative: the journey so far (04/2023)
- Fire outbreak in waste picker homes in Ghana (03/2022)
- Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers Association (Ghana) for Global Waste Pickers Day 2021 (03/2021)
- In Accra, Kpone landfill organization small steps, big horizon (12/2018)
Updates from
India
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- Empowering India's Waste Pickers: Nationwide Campaign Seeks Rights Recognition on International Waste Pickers Day (02/2024)
- Waste Pickers, the Missing Piece in India’s EPR Puzzle (10/2023)
- Dry waste centre and the basis of our livelihood have been destroyed (05/2023)
- We Speak Too webinar, by Sanitation Workers in Mumbai (09/2022)
- Announcement: Request for proposal to set up the National Database of Waste-pickers (10/2021)
Updates from
Mexico
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- Waste Pickers’ voice heard at the UN- World Habitat Day in Mexico (11/2019)
- Mexico City recognizes the rights of informal waste pickers (08/2016)
- Case study from GAIA and Revuelta Verde - CDM proposal to burn waste in Mexico (02/2013)
- "For Some in Mexico, Trash Is a Treasure Worth Defending" (New York Times) (02/2012)
Updates from
Nicaragua
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- Waste pickers' meeting to adress political turmoil in Nicaragua (07/2018)
- REDNICA Presents its Grassroots Development Model of Inclusive Recycling (12/2017)
- Rednica plans to organize 15 new cooperatives of grassroots recyclers in Nicaragua (07/2017)
- Les recycleurs au Nicaragua : une force productive et environnementale (10/2014)
- Catadores na Nicarágua: uma Força Produtiva e Ecológica (10/2014)
Updates from
Paraguay
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- Solidariedade pelos companheiros catadores de Assunção, vítimas de uma inundação (08/2014)
- Paraguay : les récupérateurs à Asunción ont besoin de secours après les inondations dévastatrices (08/2014)
- Waste pickers in Asunción, Paraguay need help after devastating floods (06/2014)
- Pedido de solidaridad con compañeros recicladores de Asunción inundados (06/2014)
Updates from
Senegal
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- Waste pickers from Bokk Diom work on their integration into waste management (12/2021)
- Mbeubeuss: Declaration of the Waste Pickers Association on the occasion of May 1st (10/2020)
- Another massive fire in Mbeubeuss landfill in Dakar, show support! (02/2018)
- A massive fire in Mbeubeuss landfill (Senegal) (01/2017)
- Le mouvement brésilien est solidaire avec les Uruguayens contre les plans de valorisation énergétique des déchets (08/2014)
Updates from
South Africa
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- Podcast on Reclaimers in South Africa (10/2021)
- African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) Wins WWF's Living Planet Award (08/2021)
- Victory for Reclaimers and Residents in Johannesburg! (05/2021)
- Two waste pickers imprisoned and denied access to medicines and food in South Africa (06/2020)
- Sign petition: Demand the right to work and survival for waste reclaimers during COVID-19 in South Africa (06/2020)
Updates from
United States of America
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- Ground Score provides waste collection services for the unhoused community (12/2021)
- Waste pickers demand expansion of the Bottle Bill in NYC (12/2021)
- Sure We Can in jeopardy! (06/2020)
- Ground Score, a new waste picker organization in the USA (02/2020)
- Sure we Can, organized waste pickers in Brooklyn NY, fights eviction (02/2020)
Updates from
Uruguay
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- Following an Agreement Between UCRUS and the Municipality of Montevideo (12/2017)
- Waste reuse and recycling remains a pending challenge for the progressive model in Uruguay (04/2016)
- Report of the 2nd National Waste Pickers’ Meeting in Uruguay (06/2015)
- Les récupérateurs répondent au plan de valorisation énergétique des déchets en Uruguay (08/2014)
- Uruguai: catadores rechaçam edital de incineração de lixo (05/2014)
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