News and articles on domestic work

  1. ILO in action

    We help migrant domestic workers overcome the pandemic

    15 December 2021

    ILO Senior Labour Migration Specialist, Gloria Moreno-Fontes, speaks from Pretoria about the Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) Project, which aims to improve migration management in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region. The project is funded by the European Commission and implemented by the ILO in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

  2. © KB Mpofu / ILO 2022

    Voices

    A vision for domestic workers

    03 March 2021

    Mendy Lerato Lusaba, founder of the Domestic Workers Association of Zimbabwe and winner of the ILO Skills Innovation Challenge, has big plans to improve the life of domestic workers in her country. Read her story on our new Voices multimedia platform.

  3. News

    Zimbabwe: Development of a Curriculum for Domestic Workers

    21 January 2021

  4. World Youth Skills Day

    1st ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call winner announced

    15 July 2020

    The winner of the first ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call has been announced, and the USD 50,000 prize has gone to a domestic workers association in Zimbabwe.

  5. News

    Workers Organizations from Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa signed a Declaration Promoting Labour and Human Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers

    11 October 2014

    Trade unions and domestic workers’ organizations from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Lesotho signed a joint declaration at the tri-national workshop in Johannesburg organized by the EU funded Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and Their Families (GAP-MDW). By signing the declaration, participants committed to support the strategies promoting human and labour rights of migrant domestic workers along the South Africa, Lesotho and Zimbabwe corridor.