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First Call Towards the Constitution of a Globalrec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee

GlobalRec | Region Africa, Asia, Europe, Global, Latin America, North America | Jun 27, 2020

On Monday, June 15th, 2020 the first online meeting for the constitution of the Globalrec COVID Crisis Advisory Committee for the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers took place with t...

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International Live streaming: Waste Pickers Organization in the World

GlobalRec | Region Global | May 20, 2020

The National movement of Brazilian Waste Pickers (MNCR), together with the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, will bring together waste pickers from around the world to discuss stra...

Videos

First ever MayDay Statement from the Global Informal Workers Movement

GlobalRec | Region Global | May 01, 2020

COVID-19 and the World’s Two Billion Informal Economy Workers A WIEGO Network Global Solidarity Platform May 1, 2020 Informal economy workers’ organizations across the global e...

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Waste Workers’ Safety during the COVID-19 pandemic (webinar)

GlobalRec | Region Global | Apr 28, 2020

The video of the webinar is available in YouTube. On Thursday April 30th, 2020, at 15:00h CEST the webinar Waste Workers’ safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by UN...

Reports

Solidarity Campaigns to Collect Funds for Waste Pickers in Coronavirus Times, Donate!

GlobalRec | Region Africa, Asia, Europe, Global, Latin America | Apr 16, 2020

Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis (COVID-19) we have compiled on the page of the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers the different initiatives and actions that different w...

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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2020

GlobalRec | Region Africa, Europe, Global, Latin America, North America | Feb 29, 2020

This March 1st, 2020, waste pickers are paying a new homage to the fellow recyclers who were murdered in Colombia 27 years ago. In their honor, this date became a global day in whi...

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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2019

GlobalRec | Region Global, Latin America, North America | Mar 20, 2019

This past March 1st, 2019, waste pickers paid a new homage to the fellow recyclers who were murdered in Colombia 27 years ago. In their honor, this date became a global day in whic...

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Mobilizations Around the World for Global Waste Pickers Day 2018

GlobalRec | Region Global, Latin America | Mar 01, 2018

It is with great pleasure that we are sharing with all the recycling community and allies the differents campaigns and demonstrations taking place today march 1st, international wa...

Demands Solidarity

March 1st, no borders for those who fight!

FACyR, ARB, RENARC, UCRUS, Sure We Can, Amelior | Region Global | Mar 01, 2016

Today, March 1, we commemorate International Waste Pickers’ Day in remembrance of our compañeros who were brutally assassinated in the Universidad Libre de Barranquilla (Colombi...

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Celebrate waste pickers with this video. Waste Pickers day 2016

GlobalRec | Region Global | Mar 01, 2016

This 7-minute animated film shows how cities on different continents have taken diverse approaches to integrating waste pickers in municipal waste management systems and how waste ...

Videos

Waste pickers at Cop21: Creating solutions for climate change

Pablo Rey | Region Global | Jan 28, 2016

Since 2009, waste pickers from around the world have participated in several United Nations Climate Change Conventions (UNFCCC). In those events they’ve raised their voices deman...

Climate Change Videos

Waste Pickers Around the World database launched on Waste Pickers’ Day

Globalrec | Region Global | Mar 03, 2015

This year, to commemorate International Waste Pickers’ Day on March 1st, we would like to share with waste pickers and allies the launch of our online participatory database ...

Reports

Global Waste Pickers’ Day: One day of celebration, 364 days of struggle!

GlobalRec | Region Global | Feb 28, 2014

International Waste Pickers’ Day is celebrated on March 1 in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed at the Universidad Libre de Barranquill...

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