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Lebanon: Domestic Workers Need the Protection of a Union
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Jun 16, 2015
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Women migrant domestic workers – who make up the majority of domestic workers – face additional discrimination in the legal system. The Kafala (guardianship) system, enforced in Lebanon and the Gulf monarchies, ties the domestic foreign worker to a specific employer; the worker becomes illegal should she quit her employer, placing the worker in a particularly vulnerable situation.
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The unstoppable domestic workers' movement: winning labour rights and protections for 15 million domestic workers
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Jun 16, 2015
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In the past few years a political and moral shift has occurred among growing numbers of political leaders which has secured rights and protections for 15 million domestic workers today. Their lives have improved by shifting away from unprotected and exploitative jobs to ones protected by labour laws.
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Singapore: A Part Of The Family?
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Jun 16, 2015
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HOME argues that ill treatment of domestic workers goes beyond physical, sexual and psychological abuse.
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In Pakistan, domestic workers rally for rights
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Jun 12, 2015
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In urban slums and shanty settlements, particularly in Pakistan, women face a range of difficulties, such as insecure housing, informal jobs, plus the double burden of household chores and access to resources. The interrelationship between culture, gender and urbanization is a complex one, where women are the poorest of the poor, because of the non-conducive urban environment.
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Thailand: Domestic Workers' Access to Justice and Compensation Exchange
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Jun 14, 2015
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On Sunday 14 June 2015, The Network of Domestic Workers in Thailand, HomeNet and the ILO hosted the Domestic Workers’ Access to Justice and Compensation Exchange event in celebration of Domestic Workers Day (16 June).
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South Africa: Story report on the Launch of the Africa Domestic Workers' Network
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Jun 16, 2013
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On 16 June 2013 the Africa Domestic Workers’ Network (AfDWN) was launched in Cape Town, South Africa, exactly two years after the adoption of the Domestic Workers’ Convention (C189) and at the very time when a diplomatic bag containing South African Government documents ratifying C189 was en route to Geneva for official lodging at the ILO.
The launch Conference of the Africa Domestic Workers’ Network took place on 15-16 June 2013. The South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers’ Union (SADSAWU), with the support of the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (COSATU) hosted the Conference. 95 domestic worker representatives from 17 organizations in 17 countries, with a total membership of 95572, participated in the Conference, and were joined by Steering Committee members and coordinators of the IDWN from Asia, Caribbean, USA and Latin America, as well as supportive organizations from South Africa and from Europe.
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Hong Kong: Filipino Unions intensify efforts for "Zero Recruitment Fees and Violations"
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Jun 16, 2013
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Trade unions and domestic workers’ groups in Hong Kong and the Philippines – which spearheaded a renewed campaign earlier this year demanding “zero recruitment fees and violations” – have stepped up their efforts for the effective implementation of recruitment regulations in Hong Kong and the Philippines, and in making agencies accountable for recruitment violations.
A research the groups have done revealed that "the violations are not only in terms of excessive fees, but also practices that undermine or violate labour rights and protection measures for domestic workers.
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Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers Launch signature campaign for Legal Act
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Jun 16, 2013
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The Domestic Workers Union, jointly with other unions and women’s movement, launched a public signature campaign in Colombo on June 16 2013, International Domestic Workers’ Day. It is a campaign to get support from the public to press the government to establish a domestic workers act. Several signature collection points were set up in Colombo: in Maradana (opposite of railway station), in front of a supermarket in Nugegoda and Fort Railway station. Members of the unions and women’s movement started to collect signatures from the passer by at 10.00 to 12.30 pm.
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Domestic workers' rights move closer to becoming reality worldwide
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Jun 14, 2013
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According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are 53-100 million domestic workers worldwide, 83 per cent of whom are women. They represent 4 to 10 per cent of the labour force in developing countries and about 2 per cent in developed countries. Their work is an important contribution to economic and social development. Still, 40 per cent of countries worldwide have no form of regulation of any kind for domestic workers.
Around the world, UN Women is working with Governments, domestic workers’ unions and the private sector to promote the rights of domestic workers –majority of who work as domestic helps in households-and ensure that domestic work is both regulated and covered by social protection. This includes supporting the Global Forum on Migration and Development and promoting the ratification of ILO Convention 189 on domestic work – a landmark international treaty adopted on 16 June 2011, which will come into force on 5 September 2013.
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Celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the C189 and the International Domestic Workers' Day on June 16
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Jun 07, 2013
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On June 16, we will celebrate the second anniversary of the C189 with 7 countries already having ratified the Convention: Uruguay, Philippines, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Italy, Paraguay and Bolivia.
The IDWN will join with domestic workers, members of trade unions and other organizations to mobilize and act on this special day to remind each and every government to ratify and implement the Convention: "Domestic Workers are Workers. Ratify C189 Now!"
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