All publications: domestic workers

MDW Information Guide

Information Guide for Zimbabwe Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa

As part of the GAP-MDW Zimbabwe/Lesotho-South Africa migration corridor project, partners have created an information guide for workers emigrating to South Africa.

MDW Information Guide

Information Guide for Domestic Workers in Zimbabwe

As part of the GAP-MDW Zimbabwe/Lesotho-South Africa migration corridor project, this information guide has been created for domestic workers in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe

Migrant Domestic Workers - Know your rights and obligations

The guide's objective is to provide up-to-date, reliable information to people from Zimbabwe who are planning to work as domestic workers in South Africa or are already employed as such in South Africa.

Care needs and migration for domestic work: Ukraine-Poland

The Ukrainian domestic workers who migrate to Poland face the same difficulties as migrant domestic workers around the world, which include exposure to violations of human and labour rights, given their migration status, the absence of protection...

Working Paper on Operational Parameters to Assess Fair Recruitment Practices

These parameters list a series of questions and issues that should be looked into in order to assess recruitment practices.

Building Bargaining Power: How Domestic Workers in Lebanon made a courageous step to form a union

In January 2015, 200 women and men from Ethiopia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and beyond founded a Union for domestic workers in Lebanon. The Founding Congress was both a moving and historical occasion: this was the birth of the...

Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme in India

Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in India.

Regional programme

Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme

Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme.

Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme in Lebanon

Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in Lebanon.

Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme in Jordan

Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in Jordan.

Brief on the "Work in Freedom" Programme in Nepal

Provides an overview of the Work in Freedom programme in Nepal.

Decent work for domestic workers: Achievements since the adoption of Convention C189

On 16 June 2011, workers, employers and governments came together to adopt ILO Convention No. 189 on decent work for domestic workers. In the last five years since its adoption, some 70 countries around the world have taken action to advance decent...

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Migrant Domestic Workers Across the World: global and regional estimates

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Discussion paper

Interregional knowledge sharing forum on promoting international cooperation and partnerships to realize a fair migration agenda for...

This is a discussion paper for the interregional knowledge sharing forum on Good practices and lessons learned on promoting international cooperation and partnerships to realize a fair migration agenda for migrant domestic workers in Africa, the...

Regulating International Labour Recruitment in the Domestic Work Sector

Regulating International Labour Recruitment in the Domestic Work Sector: A Review of key issues, challenges and opportunities

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Expanding Social Security to Migrant Domestic Workers

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Gender sensitivity in labour migration agreements and MOUs

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Protecting Migrant Domestic Workers: The international legal framework

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Migrant Domestic Workers: Promoting Occupational Safety and Health

Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers - Research series in support of June 2016 project report release.

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 72

The introduction of a minimum wage for domestic workers in South Africa