News and articles
September 2021
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Soft launching of the updated labour inspection guidelines in Thailand
21 September 2021
A guide for labour inspectors is aimed to improve labour inspection services as a whole, with attention to women migrant workers, domestic workers, forced labour, and violence and harassment in the workplace.
March 2018
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© Leila Aloui / ILO 2022
Reforming the migrant domestic work sector in the Arab region vital to welfare of both workers and employers – ILO report
08 March 2018
An ILO White Paper outlines policy recommendations to reform the migrant domestic work sector and establish a professionalized and high-quality care economy in the region.
February 2018
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Convention No. 189 on domestic workers ratified by Brazil
01 February 2018
Brazil promotes decent work for an estimated 7 million domestic workers.
August 2016
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Unions intensify cooperation to promote decent work for domestic workers and eliminate child labour
11 August 2016
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Asia Pacific: Unions undertake commitment to organize informal workers
09 August 2016
June 2016
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Achievements and the way forward to protect the rights of migrant domestic workers
23 June 2016
On Thursday June 23rd, representatives of Polish and Ukrainian trade unions gathered in Lviv, Ukraine for a one-day workshop organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to discuss achievements under the Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) in the Ukraine-Poland migration corridor.
February 2015
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Lebanon: What challenges for Domestic Workers?
09 February 2015
The first Domestic Workers‘ Union in Lebanon was launched in January. More than 220,000 domestic workers face many challenges in Lebanon. Anna Biondi, Deputy Director of the ILO Bureau for Workers ‘Activities (ACTRAV), gives her views about the challenges faced by domestic workers as well as the support they are getting from the ILO.
January 2015
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Finland ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189)
08 January 2015
Finland is the 17th ILO member State and the fifth European country to ratify this instrument, which seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.
December 2014
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© Steve McCurry 2022
Ending the abuse of domestic workers in Asia
22 December 2014
Although there are more than 52 million domestic workers world-wide, including more than 21 million in Asia Pacific, only a small minority are covered by general labour laws. This lack of protection leaves them vulnerable to – sometimes terrible – abuse and exploitation. Journalist Karen Emmons has been working with the photographer Steve McCurry on a documentary project, “No one should work this way,” to record and expose some of the abuses faced by Asian migrant domestic workers.
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© J. Directo / AFP 2022
New law leads to new life for migrant domestic workers
16 December 2014
After decades of labor organizing and with the support of the ILO, Argentina has passed a new migration policy to make life better for domestic workers.