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The #climatecrisis is already affecting workers across the globe 🌎 As the climate changes, all workers should be able to work in: ✅ safe ✅ healthy & ✅ secure work conditions and workplaces.

Proud to launch our Climate Change and Waste Pickers Research Brief today in Belo Horizonte Brazil. We claim that strengthening waste pickers resilience builds cities resilience to CC David Satterthwaite Vanesa Castán Broto ♻️ International Alliance of Waste Pickers wiego.org/publications/c…

👀 Great summary of WIEGO's latest research 📚 #Wastepickers play a crucial role in reducing pollution & carbon emissions 🏭♻️. How is their work & health impacted by #climatechange? How do they cope? Great thread cc GAIA -Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives ♻️ International Alliance of Waste Pickers Institute of Development Studies IDRC | CRDI

🗣WIEGO's Waste Specialist and study lead Sonia Dias contextualized the research📊: “Workers in informal employment are invisible in #climatechange research. It’s important to build knowledge of how climate change affects waste pickers with the workers themselves.”

Sonia Dias Ana Carolina Ogando MNCR - Movimento Nacional de Catadores de Mat. Rec Institute of Development Studies IDRC | CRDI IIED ♻️ International Alliance of Waste Pickers We’re now hearing from representatives from MNCR - Movimento Nacional de Catadores de Mat. Rec (Brazil’s National Movement of Waste Pickers) + autonomous workers. 🗣️“We the pickers are the ones that make a difference - we deserve to be paid for the service we provide.” Jeanne Santos, from Salvador ✊🏾

🇧🇷 Presente! Presente! Presente! Sempre, sempre, sempre! ✊🏽 ¡Catador/a organizado/a jamais sera pisado/a! 💪🏽♻️🌳 #Wastepickers are environmental defenders! Time for our cities to recognize & pay them for their services #ReciclajeSinRecicladoresEsBasura

I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words. I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.

IAWP, representing 460,000+ waste pickers from 50+ organizations in 34+ countries, is at INC-3 to advocate for a just transition to a circular economy for plastics. #JustTransition #WastepickersAtINC3 #INC3 #PlasticsTreaty

♻️Today is #WastePickersDay! Close to 20 million people make a living collecting, sorting, recycling & selling materials. They contribute to: 💰local economies 🩺 public health 🍃environmental sustainability We join waste pickers in their demand for recognition & inclusion ✊🏾

While everyone is paying attention to protests in higher ed, you should know that 800,000 people took to the streets in Buenos Aires this week to fight Milei’s cuts to free public university education in Argentina: english.elpais.com/international/…

"Waste pickers should be at the table. They should be coming out with the proposals on what affects waste pickers." Watch Francis Taban from Binners’ Project - Canada speaking on his impressions of UN Environment Programme's #INC4, where the world is discussing a global treaty on plastic. ✊🏿♻️

🌟 This International Workers' Day, we shine a light on the invaluable care work of street vendors! 💼 We nurture our families, communities, and cities. It's time for States to reciprocate and prioritize our care too! #WorkersDay #MayDay #StreetVendorCare 🛍️

✊🏾 On this #LabourDay, we urge governments to ratify the ILO Convention 177, and safeguard the labour rights of home-based workers. Home-based workers are workers too, and Social Protection, fair wages and decent work are their rights! #RecognizeUs #RatifyC177 #MayDay

Organizing gives workers in informal employment a way to: ✊🏿 build confidence & power to take collective action, ✊🏾 gain recognition, ✊🏽 improve their lives & protect their livelihoods. We stand in solidarity with ♻️ International Alliance of Waste Pickers @HomeNetIn StreetNet International IDWF - International Domestic Workers Federation! #LabourDay

The care economy is essential for our societies, with over 381 million care workers globally. It's vital for economic and social well-being. International Labour Conference delegates will discuss decent work in the care economy at #ILC2024.

We call for high-quality care services for ALL workers 📣 ♻️ International Alliance of Waste Pickers IDWF - International Domestic Workers Federation HomeNet International StreetNet International SEWA Cooperative Federation Read our joint position paper in preparation for the #ILC2024 general discussion on decent work and the #CareEconomy: bit.ly/3KccMI6

An opinion piece in The Indian Express by Shalini Sinha and me. We write on "Heatwave and the death of a worker: What heat action plan must focus on" 🧵👇🏿 - 1/12 indianexpress.com/article/opinio…