Wastepickers

Waste pickers should be included in India’s proposed pension program

Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers | Region Asia, India | Apr 18, 2016

The Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers has submitted the following letter to Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India on 8th April, 2016 to demand that waste...

Laws and Legislation Social security

Incineration of Waste will Throw Marginalized Communities like Yanadis out of Business

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Sep 19, 2015

Guntur known for its chillies is set to become an important city. Residual state of Andhra Pradesh, after creation of Telangana, has chosen its capital to be in the area between Gu...

Incineration

Nelamangala Municipal Council Unanimously Passes Resolution for Inclusion of Wastepickers

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Sep 15, 2015

Last week, Nelamangala Town Municipal Council general body unanimously passed a resolution for inclusion of wastepickers in waste management. Nelamangala is a small town, located i...

Inclusive models Social security

“For Some in Mexico, Trash Is a Treasure Worth Defending” (New York Times)

deia | Region Latin America | Feb 16, 2012

Mexico – 16 Feb 2012 – Pablo Téllez Falcón has long ruled supreme over one of the world’s largest dumps at the edge of Mexico City. He was born in garbage, he likes...

Press

“Health insurance for unorganised sector too” (Indian Express)

deia | Region Asia | Feb 13, 2012

India – 13 Feb 2012 – The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana is set for a big expansion, with the Prime Minister’s Office clearing extension of the health insurance schem...

Press

“Finding ‘Life, Death And Hope’ In A Mumbai Slum” (WBUR)

deia | Region Asia | Feb 08, 2012

India – 8 Feb 2012 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo spent more than three years in Mumbai’s Annawadi slum to do research for her new book, Behind...

Press

“A Decent Life Is the Train That Hasn’t Hit You” (Slate)

deia | Region Asia | Feb 06, 2012

India – 6 Feb 2012 – Katherine Boo, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer, has many ways of illuminating the people she writes about. The most impor...

Press

“City of Lost Children” (Wall Street Journal)

deia | Region Asia | Feb 04, 2012

India – 4 Feb 2012 – Katherine Boo has made a career out of being invisible. In articles about welfare, teenage pregnancy and unemployment in urban America, she achieve...

Press

Video: The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers – Global Day of Action for Climate Justice

deia | Region Africa | Feb 01, 2012

On Dec. 3, the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and Allies marched in the streets of Durban demanding climate justice. Enjoy the video! Global Alliance of Waste Pickers – Glo...

Incineration Privatization

“The Waste Pickers’ Oral Histories” (The Audioboo Blog)

deia | Region Asia | Feb 01, 2012

India – The interviews took place with the help of waste picker organisations in some of India’s biggest cities (Delhi, Chennai, Bangaluru and Pune), amid the constant honk...

Press

“Pune: A (Nearly) Waste-Free City” (MIT Public Service Center)

deia | Region Asia | Jan 26, 2012

India – 26 Jan 2012 – Until now, we’ve spent the majority of our time exploring upstream agricultural supply chains – learning about what happens to food between fa...

Press

“Government to train Kupferberg population” (Namibian Broadcasting Corporation)

deia | Region Africa | Jan 25, 2012

Namibia – 25 Jan 2012 – The Prime Minister said government was also working towards offering training to the Kupferberg population. Nahas Angula believes that the solut...

Press

SWaCH Newsletter – Issue 2 – January 2012

deia | Region Asia | Jan 24, 2012

Greetings from SWaCH! It is with great pleasure that we present to you the second issue of the SWaCH quarterly newsletter. swach-newsletter2 Warm Regards, Manisha Desai +919765405...

India (AIW) Newsletters

“Mexico City closes noxious landfill but fails to find alternative dump” (Chron)

deia | Region Latin America | Jan 22, 2012

Mexico – 22 Jan 2012 – MEXICO CITY – As one of the planet’s greatest crushes of humanity, the sprawling and chaotic Mexican capital hemorrhages garbage. Mex...

Press Privatization

Slideshow – The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers make their voices heard at COP17

deia Dec 13, 2011

In the sterile environment of COP17, the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers called attention to their crucial role as climate change mitigators, demanding a just Green Climate Fund a...

Climate Change

Video – “While indecision reigned” (Down to Earth)

deia | Region Asia | Dec 12, 2011

Do not support companies that burn waste, said the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers at a protest demonstration during the COP17 at Durban.

Climate Change Press

“Down to Zero” (The Rainbow Inside)

deia Dec 07, 2011

DURBAN – Visit any dump site or landfill in the developing world and you will see people picking through the waste, alongside flocks of birds doing the same. Most of us who l...

Climate Change Press

“Wastepickers given the cold shoulder outside ICC” (The Mercury)

deia Dec 06, 2011

DURBAN – An NGO which was prohibited from displaying placards that had not been pre-approved on the sidelines of the COP17 talks believe that their right to freedom of spee...

Climate Change Press

“Thousands March at U.N. Climate Summit in Durban to Demand Climate Justice” (Democracy Now!)

deia Dec 06, 2011

DURBAN – We are broadcasting this week from Durban, South Africa, where critical talks on fighting climate change have entered their second week. Key issues at the United Na...

Climate Change Press

“Waste Pickers Clean Up Our Mess on the Ground and in the Air” (allAfrica.com)

deia Dec 06, 2011

DURBAN — Still thinking about wretched scavengers surviving on the tips? Can that thought. They have a name: waste pickers, and they exist in their millions in the world. They ar...

Climate Change Press

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