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  • Report

    Report of the Launch of the African Domestic Workers Network

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  • Project

    Women’s Economic Empowerment – Domestic Workers

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

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  • Informational Article

    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....

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    Livelihoods August 01, 2019

    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...

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    Livelihoods August 01, 2019

    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...

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  • Informational Article

    Domestic Workers and Law

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

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  • Celebrating Ratification by Countries of Domestic Workers' Convention (C189) Page

    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 ...

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    Challenges of Measuring Domestic Workers

    The information in this web page is based on personal communications with Françoise Carré and Joann Vanek (2010) of the WIEGO Statistics...

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  • Informational Article

    Typology of Domestic Workers

    This material is drawn from Chen, Martha A. 2011. “Recognizing Domestic Workers, Regulating Domestic Work: Conceptual, Measurement, and Regulatory...

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  • Anna Nkobele, a domestic worker in a blue uniform, dusts a shelf in a home in Johannesburg. Page

    Domestic Workers

    Overview on domestic workers, numbers and challenges: More than 60 million domestic workers in the world provide essential services so others...

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