All resources: child labour + child workers

Protection of domestic workers

Promoting decent work for domestic workers: Maruli A. Hasoloan, Director General of Labour Placement

Maruli A. Hasoloan, Director General of Labour Placement and Employment Development of the Ministry of Manpower, has given voice to the life story of Siti Kholifah, a domestic worker from Yogyakarta. Under the title “Benefits of written working...

Decent work for domestic workers: eight good practices from Asia

The eight good practices demonstrate successful initiatives to combat child labour in India and Nepal; to establish strong and sustainable domestic workers organizations in the form of trade unions, cooperatives or associations in Indonesia, the...

Rapid assessment of child labour in Saint Lucia

This Rapid Assessment is part of a South-South Cooperation initiative funded through the Brazil-ILO Cooperation Programme, within the context of the ILO’s Regional Initiative: Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour (RI). The assessment...

Combat child labour in domestic work and the worst forms in Haiti - Final evaluation summary

Evaluation consultant: Rima Slaibi

Protection of domestic workers

Promoting decent work for domestic workers: Actor Lukman Sardi

Lukman Sardi, a senior actor, has given voice to the life story of Kholisoh, a domestic worker from Yogyakarta. Under the title “Give my salary without having to ask”, Kholisoh wrote about her plight as a domestic worker for the last 14 years.

Interagency partnership

ILO and UNICEF to collaborate on child protection in Bangladesh

UN Agencies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to reinforce their joint efforts to combat child labour and strengthen child protection services.

Protection of domestic workers

Promoting decent work for Indonesian domestic workers: Chair of Indonesian Women’s Congress Giwo Rubianto

Giwo Rubianto, Chair of Indonesian Women’s Congress (Kowani), lends her voice to bring the life story of Tatik, a domestic worker from Yogyakarta, to life before more than 200 people attending the launch a book titled “We Will not Be Silent: 31...

Tool kit for development and implementation of National Action Plans (NAPs) on Child Labour

The tool kit derives from experiences gathered through more than a decade of ILO support to the development and implementation of National Action Plans (NAP) on Child Labour across the globe.

We will not be silent: 31 stories of domestic workers behind the domestic walls (in Bahasa Indonesia)

These writings are expected to educate the public and policy makers about working conditions and the rights of domestic workers as workers, so that in turn, can support efforts to realize decent work for domestic workers and the elimination of child...

50 for Freedom campaign to end modern slavery

Discussion of ILO Programmes to Combat Child Labour in Kyrgyzstan

On 8 August 2017, Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Vice Mayor Nurbek Kadyrov met with Tino Clemens of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Domestic workers voice their aspirations through compilation of stories: “We will not be silent”

As an effort to document the lives and the struggle of Indonesian domestic workers to be recognized as workers, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with JALA PRT and the Jakarta’s Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI...

G20 Summit and Ministerial Declaration

Launch of skills training initiative for domestic workers: Improving domestic workers’ job quality and standards

Many domestic workers endure very poor working conditions, many are underpaid, have no social security coverage, work long hours, in difficult and not always in safe conditions. Some are even vulnerable to the threat of trafficking, sexual, physical...

ILO Roadmap on Decent Work in Global Supply Chains

Opening of Field Office and World Day against Child Labour, 12 June 2017

Child labour in cotton - A briefing

ILO supports Seminar on Apprenticeship programme

The final in a series already conducted in the Bahamas, Guyana, Saint Lucia, and Suriname, the Seminar this week brought together Delegates from Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago as part of the Brazilian support under the Regional Initiative - Latin...

Presentations - The Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada Seminar

Enhancing school-to-work transition: An examination of the experiences and good practices of the Brazilian Apprenticeship System

News

Students as agents of change for the elimination of child domestic labour

Students could act as agents of change for their countries. Their efforts need to be supported with suitable activities such as dialogues, discussions and knowledge sharing events.