Foto: Recicladores Bolivia.
Foto: Recicladores Bolivia.

Waste pickers’ associations from seven cities in Bolivia that participated in the second national conference, marched to demand the passage of a law that recognizes them as workers and gives them the right to social security benefits. Read the article in Correo del Sur (in Spanish). For background, here is a press release from the 1st National Meeting in 2011.