News and articles on domestic work

  1. News

    Updated Skills Development Programme for Domestic Workers – including Migrant Domestic Workers – Launched in Argentina

    19 May 2015

    The Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) provided support to the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina to review its Vocational Training Program for domestic workers and to update its training materials in order to incorporate the provisions of the ILO Convention 189 and include migrant domestic workers’ issues.

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    Argentina

    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.

  3. News

    Bi-national Agreement Promoting Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers in Paraguay-Argentina Migration Corridor

    21 September 2014

    Domestic workers’ organizations and trade union confederations from Paraguay and Argentina signed a bi-national agreement in order to promote decent work for Paraguayan migrant domestic workers in Argentina. This was the main output of a bi-national workshop organized under the auspices of the EU funded Global Action Programme for Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW).

  4. Labour Standards

    Argentina ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention

    24 March 2014

    Argentina is the thirteenth ILO member State and the seventh Latin American member State to ratify this instrument that seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.

  5. News

    Argentina and Paraguay signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support ILO Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers

    10 December 2013

    Tripartite Commissions on Equal Opportunities of Argentina and Paraguay signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop different collaborative initiatives, among them - their role as advisory committee of the EU funded Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW).