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![Olga Abizaid and Ana Carolina Ogando with Renarec leaders](https://globalrec.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/renarec-gender-rights-05-500x500.jpg)
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Portraits of ‘Gender and Waste’ in Belo Horizonte
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Gender and waste project – capacity building for better communication
In May 2015, a workshop on communication and leadership skills with women waste pickers took place as part of the Gender & Waste Project in a partnership of WIEGO/MNCR with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
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Scenes from the heart of recycling: a series
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Women waste pickers gathered with other social movements to share common experiences
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Brazilian waste pickers denounce misogynist violence
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An interview with Thulisiwe Khumalo, woman waste picker and leader
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Women waste pickers discuss strategies for recognition at a Cape Town workshop
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Waste pickers and allies host event to mark closure of gender and recycling project
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Struggling for unity: women waste pickers in South Africa
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Women waste pickers gather in Brazil, discuss how gender equality can strengthen the national movement
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In São Paulo, women waste pickers host a conference to strengthen leadership
About 225 women waste pickers connected to the Brazilian Waste Pickers’ Movement (MNCR) participated in August in the first statewide conference for women waste pickers.
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March 8th: Women in the struggle for inclusive recycling
For women waste pickers, March 8 is a day of struggle – a struggle for inclusive recycling and for the end of inequality in recycling.
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Waste and Gender: Rethinking Relations for Empowerment
Little research exists about gender relations and divisions among waste pickers. A collaborative project involving waste pickers in Latin America seeks to shed light on the multiple levels of discrimination that women waste pickers face and their needs.