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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. 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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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Page

    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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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. 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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    Global Advocacy and Negotiations July 30, 2019

    New international labour standard will help protect vulnerable workers from violence and harassment

    When the 2019 International Labour Conference voted to adopt Convention 190 on Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190),...

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  • Domestic worker washing window_Johannesburg. Photo: J. Torgovnik/Getty Images Audiovisual Materials

    Domestic Workers and C189: Making it Real, Africa

    Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention...

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    Global Advocacy and Negotiations March 11, 2019

    Cities are undermining the potential of universal cash grants to support women’s economic empowerment and reduce poverty

    Ninety-two per cent of women’s employment in the developing world is in the informal economy, and as urbanization proceeds an increasing...

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    Livelihoods February 06, 2019

    Roma, galardonada y candidata a los Óscar y algunas lecturas imprescindibles sobre el trabajo del hogar

    El próximo mes, sabremos si el conmovedor retrato del director Alfonso Cuarón Orozco sobre una trabajadora del hogar en México en los años...

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    Legal Empowerment January 15, 2019

    With “Roma” in the Awards Circle, Here are Our Must-reads on Domestic Workers

    Next month, we’ll find out if director Alfonso Cuarón Orozco’s moving portrayal of a domestic worker in 1970s Mexico will gain nods from...

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