Contributors: FILCAMS IDWF is happy to welcome Wendy Paula Galarza Quinonez as a replacement for Giuliana Mesina on the Executive Committee. Giuliana has had to step down from her ExCo...
Contributors: SINACTRAHO Ana Laura Aquino Gaspar, born October 23, 1975 in Mexico City to parents from Oaxaca, a southern Mexican state. She began working as a domestic worker at the...
Contributors: NDWA Gilda Blanco is a housecleaner who came to the United States in 2008 from Livingston, Guatemala — the cradle of Garifuna culture in the region. Allison Julien migrated...
Contributors: Chris Burns/Equal Times Iscah Achieng is back home in Kenya and feels lucky to be alive. Recently released from her abusive employers in Saudi Arabia, she tells a harrowing...
Contributors: RadioLabour Myrtle Witbooi, the President of the International Domestic Workers’ Federation, has been granted the 2015 Fairness award for her work to have domestic workers covered by ILO Convention...
Contributors: I am a migrant For now Ileana continues as a coordinator of the Association of Domestic Workers in Nicaragua, and also as a labor attorney, “now that I got...
Barbro Budin, Project and Gender Equality Coordinator of the IUF spoke at a side event: “Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers” organized by the International Labour Office (ILO) and the...
War hits everyone, but it hits hardest those who are already vulnerable. Just when it
We are Leading the Way in Championing the Voices of Migrant DWs Across Asia-Pacific The International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF)...
Emotional tribute to our leader Ida Le Blanc and her mother, the great Clotil Walcott Our affiliate in Trinidad and...
It is with great pleasure that we announce our Africa Regional Coordinator, Vicky Kanyoka, has been appointed as the first...
The United Nations developed its first-ever system-wide policy paper on Care and Support, incorporating contributions from the International Domestic Workers...
Following many years of advocacy from the domestic workers movement with the support of key partners, Thailand adopted a new...
The National Federation of Women Workers (FENAMUTRA), led by Ruth Díaz, a member of the IDWF Executive Committee, is one...