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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Research Network for Domestic Worker Rights – Newsletter Number 15

    This issue of the newsletter includes updates about the ILO Convention, campaigns and information about new research related to domestic...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Research Network for Domestic Worker Rights Newsletter No. 17

    This issue of the Research Network for Domestic Worker Rights newsletter, includes information on the implementation process of the ILO Convention,...

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  • Legal Instruments

    WIEGO and Ghana TUC Law Project Discussions and Recommendations from the Legal Team

    This report documents the results of a discussion on relevant Laws and practices that affect Domestic Workers, kayayeis (headload porters)...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    SEWA Delhi – Advocacy Campaigns

    This website has information about SEWA Delhi’s work with informal workers including construction workers, domestic workers, and street...

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Lettre d’Information OBA de WIEGO novembre 2016

    Une newsletter de WIEGO aux organisations de travailleurs informels basées sur leurs adhérents (OBA), novembre 2016. Read the newsletter...

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  • Legal Instruments

    An Act Governing Domestic Help and Domestic Employees

    This Act makes provisions that shall apply to the employment relationship of employees who provide domestic services for their employer or...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Employment Relations Act, 2008

    This Act seeks to amend and consolidate the law relating to trade unions, fundamental rights of workers and employers, collective bargaining,...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Domestic Service

    This final rule revises the duties that fall within the term companionship and the major effect is that more domestic service workers will...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    How human traffickers trap women into domestic servitude

    More than three million women are forced into servitude as domestic workers every year, often lured to other countries in the Persian Gulf...

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Balsewa Benefits: SEWA’s Innovative Child Care Centres and Workers

    The Balsewa child care centre model was initiated by the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union in India, to fill a gap...

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