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Launch of skill development initiative for domestic workers/household assistants

The Delhi Government, the Ministry of Labour and Employment and ILO have joined hands to kick-start a pilot training programme to skill and re-skill domestic workers/household assistants across the Delhi and Noida region. The Pilot programme aims...

Decent Work for domestic workers: a long way to go

The International Labour Organization (ILO) – the UN agency dealing with work-related issues - and other women’s advocacy groups consider domestic work to be among the most precarious of occupations. A report to the 2009 International Labour...

Decent Work for domestic workers: a long way to go.

The ILO and other women’s advocacy groups consider domestic work to be among the most precarious of occupations. The present economic downturn and jobs crisis sweeping the world is likely to aggravate those vulnerabilities depicted in a report to...

The Launch of 2009 Global Report on Forced Labour: Abolishing forced labour in Indonesia through the establishment of international...

In a new study on the patterns of forced labour worldwide, the International Labour Office (ILO) says the “opportunity cost” of coercion to the workers affected reaches over USD 20 billion per year. The report, entitled The Cost of Coercion, also...

Migrant domestic workers: Dreams washed away by tears

Most workers experience some form of verbal, physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse on a regular basis and are forced to confinement within the workplace. Contracts are violated, and payments and passports are sometimes withheld by employers or...