A young woman reaches her towel-wrapped hand into the oven and pulls out a baking sheet. The baby strapped to her back twists to look around, his gaze falling on a nearby worker who sits in the shade of a tarp and cuts dough into strips.
The following countries have ratified the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (C189) and Recommendation (No. 201) through their national legislatures and completed the ratification process with the International Labour Office.
2 May, 2013 - International Workers' Day celebrated on the First of May commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world. It is also recognition of the Global Workers Movement and people unite to express their international solidary.
Resources to help workers organize and advocate, and publications detailing successes and challenges, are proliferating. These resources from WIEGO can be downloaded and shared for free.
Recent initiatives have aimed to build the capacity of informal worker organizers and leaders to build their democratic organizations and to run them effectively. For example, the Inclusive Cities Project partners are working on sustainability plans. As well, WIEGO has assisted by offering fund-raising training and working with the HomeNets in Asia to build democratic organizations and make the transition from NGO to MBO.
This series of audiovisual materials provides information about the process of inclusion of waste pickers into the waste management system in Bogota at the local level, and in Colombia at the national level. It includes short videos—with information on waste pickers' situation and their claims, as well as education materials—that WIEGO has produced to disseminate how this process of inclusion has taken place in order to reach out to every municipality in Colombia and to all waste pickers in the world interested in knowing more about this experience.
History was made June 16, 2011 when governments, employers and workers from around the world adopted the Convention and accompanying Recommendation on Decent Work for Domestic Workers at the 100th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
A young woman reaches her towel-wrapped hand into the oven and pulls out a baking sheet. The baby strapped to her back twists to look around, his gaze falling on a nearby worker who sits in the shade of a tarp and cuts dough into strips.
These resources from WIEGO can be downloaded and shared for free.
