
Domestic workers celebrate rights breakthrough
Campaigners are celebrating the long-awaited ratification of a treaty on labour rights for domestic workers that will offer protection to millions of employees worldwide. Details

Campaigners are celebrating the long-awaited ratification of a treaty on labour rights for domestic workers that will offer protection to millions of employees worldwide. Details

It’s probably the biggest social movement that you’ve never heard of. Unless, of course, you are one of the millions of activists directly involved. But

The International Labour Organization’s Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) comes into force on 5 September 2013, extending basic labour rights to domestic workers around

A United Nations treaty entering into force today will extend the labour and social rights of some 53 million domestic workers around the world. Details


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,

Adriana Paz Ramírez, General Secretary of the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF), together with leaders