Domestic Workers

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...

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...

“Decent Work for Domestic Workers” Campaign

Report of the Launch of the African Domestic Workers Network

Women’s Economic Empowerment – Domestic Workers

Domestic Workers’ Leadership for EmpowermentEconomic and Employment Rights: Advancing Domestic Workers’ Leadership

Informal Workers and the Law

WIEGO works with four main occupational groups of informal workers: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers....

Trabajadoras y trabajadores en la economía informal celebran la aprobación de un nuevo estándar internacional sobre la eliminación de la violencia y el acoso

por Leslie Vryenhoek junto con Karin Pape y Rachel Moussié La Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo (CIT) votó a favor de la aprobación del...

Travailleuses et travailleurs de l’informel fêtent l’approbation d’une nouvelle convention internationale concernant l’élimination de la violence et du harcèlement

par Leslie Vryenhoek avec Karin Pape et Rachel Moussié La Conférence internationale du Travail (CIT) a voté pour l’adoption de la Convention...

Domestic Workers and Law

Domestic workers provide essential services (e.g. cleaning, cooking, childcare, gardening) in other peoples’ homes─which allows others...

Ratification by Countries of Domestic Workers’ Convention (C189)

These countries have ratified the Domestic Workers Convention 2011 (C189) and Recommendation (No. 201): 2020 Namibia* Mexico* 2019 Madagascar Sweden 2018 Brazil GrenadaPeru 2017 Guinea 2016 Jamaica ...