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Colombia: How waste pickers have fought for their rights and cleaned cities during COVID-19

By ICCCAD
November 9, 2020
in :  Voices from the Frontline
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In Colombia, despite the nationwide lockdown, waste pickers have successfully advocated for their rights to continue collecting wastes from the streets to keep cities clean. Federico Parra interviews three waste pickers from different unions and collectives- This is the twenty-second in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. Waste pickers in Colombia, as …

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