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 IDWF Annual Report 2018 - United, Strong & Growing

IDWF Annual Report 2018 - United, Strong & Growing

by IDWFED — last modified Oct 31, 2019 05:26 PM

IDWF has now established itself as an essential organization—based on the ideas, life experiences and leadership of domestic workers worldwide.

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Resolutions: Adopted by the 2nd IDWF Congress 2018,  Cape Town, South Africa

Resolutions: Adopted by the 2nd IDWF Congress 2018, Cape Town, South Africa

by IDWFED — last modified Aug 01, 2019 05:01 PM

The IDWF is a growing movement of domestic workers. The second Congress in Cape Town, South Africa gives us inspiration and renewed energy to fight for our dignity, rights and freedom. Eighteen resolutions have been adopted. They are the goals and the concrete guides for our program of action in the next 5 years.

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Decent Work for Domestic Workers - Eight Good Practices from Asia

Decent Work for Domestic Workers - Eight Good Practices from Asia

by IDWFED — last modified Sep 29, 2017 11:57 PM

The eight good practices demonstrate successful initiatives to combat child labour in India and Nepal; to establish strong and sustainable domestic workers organizations in the form of trade unions, cooperatives or associations in Indonesia, the Philippines and the Republic of Korea; on skills development and organizing in Hong Kong, China, and on the global online IDWF communication network.

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Tackling child labour in domestic work: a handbook for action for domestic workers and their organizations

Tackling child labour in domestic work: a handbook for action for domestic workers and their organizations

by IDWFED — last modified Sep 01, 2020 05:05 PM

The handbook will inspire domestic workers and their organizations to eliminate exploitative, harmful and hazardous child domestic work, promote decent work for domestic workers, and help domestic workers to reach their full potential in work and in life.

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Unheard, Unseen, Unreached (II) - Stories of Women and Child Domestic Workers who broke the barriers of slavery and became catalysts of change

Unheard, Unseen, Unreached (II) - Stories of Women and Child Domestic Workers who broke the barriers of slavery and became catalysts of change

by IDWFED — last modified Oct 16, 2017 06:05 PM

The book, "Unheard, Unseen, Unreached Part II" contains excerpts where the domestic workers and child domestic workers have told their stories expressing their pain and fear and how the movement has played key role by becoming a ray of hope in their lives.

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Report of the regional seminar deliberations - Legalization and professionalization of domestic workers

Report of the regional seminar deliberations - Legalization and professionalization of domestic workers

by IDWFED — last modified Sep 19, 2016 04:26 PM

Advancing real change in East Africa and the DRC

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Domestic Worker Organizing Toolbox by NDWA

Domestic Worker Organizing Toolbox by NDWA

by IDWFED — last modified Apr 13, 2016 04:35 PM

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (USA) recently unveiled the Domestic Worker Organizing Toolbox. It is an incredible resource filled with a wide range of tools to support domestic worker organizations in achieving growth and impact.

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Hidden Slavery: Child Domestic Workers

Hidden Slavery: Child Domestic Workers

by IDWFED — last modified Jun 27, 2016 10:16 PM

Study on the Situation of Child Domestic Workers in Bangladesh

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Trafficking in domestic work: Looking at the demand-side

Trafficking in domestic work: Looking at the demand-side

by IDWFED — last modified Apr 21, 2016 03:13 PM

This fifth DemandAT working paper aims to provide a framework for research that captures some of the specificities of work in a domestic setting. This will provide common ground for the series of country studies that are to follow.

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Teachers' trade unions mainstream the topic of child labour in education curricula for children and teachers in Tajikistan

Teachers' trade unions mainstream the topic of child labour in education curricula for children and teachers in Tajikistan

by IDWFED — last modified Mar 22, 2016 05:54 PM

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch - Teachers’ trade unions mainstream the topic of child labour in education curricula for children and teachers (Tajikistan)

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Tackling child labour and protecting young workers in domestic work - A resource manual

Tackling child labour and protecting young workers in domestic work - A resource manual

by IDWFED — last modified Nov 02, 2015 08:36 PM

The Resource Manual is a comprehensive document on the issue of engagement of children in domestic work that is intended to provide support to organisations ranging from trade unions, child rights organisations/NGOs, and others to take action against child domestic labour and to protect young domestic workers of legal working age. It has been especially developed to strengthen the capacity of trade unions and worker groups, community-based organisations and NGOs to advocate for an end to exploitation and abuse of children in domestic work, and to provide good practice guidance on the best ways of directly supporting these children so that they get access to education, social protection schemes and thus a fulfilled childhood.

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Child domestic work: Global estimates 2012

Child domestic work: Global estimates 2012

by IDWFED — last modified Nov 02, 2015 09:29 PM

This factsheet is an update to the global estimates on child domestic work 2008

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Ending child labour in domestic work and protecting young workers from abusive working conditions

Ending child labour in domestic work and protecting young workers from abusive working conditions

by IDWFED — last modified Nov 25, 2015 06:48 PM

New report on domestic work within the framework of the two ILO fundamental conventions on child labour and the recently adopted instruments on decent work for domestic workers.

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Home Truths: Wellbeing and vulnerabilities of child domestic workers, by Anti-Slavery International

Home Truths: Wellbeing and vulnerabilities of child domestic workers, by Anti-Slavery International

by IDWFED — last modified Nov 26, 2015 04:22 PM

This report presents the findings of a multi-country study into the psychosocial wellbeing of child domestic workers (CDWs) across three continents. The study was conducted in Peru, Costa Rica, Togo, Tanzania, India and Philippines during 2009 with around 3,000 children, mostly between the ages of 10 and 17; half of whom work as paid or unpaid domestic workers. This study makes an important contribution to our understanding of child domestic work and provides important indicators in terms of the situation and circumstances that most affect these child workers as well as the aspects of their life that provide resilience and contribute to their wellbeing in a positive way.

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WIEGO Web Section on Domestic Workers

WIEGO Web Section on Domestic Workers

by IDWFED — last modified Dec 29, 2015 03:05 PM

A comprehensive collection of educational resources and a lot of publication links.

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Good practices on child labour 2010

Good practices on child labour 2010

by IDWFED — last modified Sep 21, 2017 04:19 PM

During the Global Child Labour Conference 2010 (The Hague, The Netherlands) IPEC and its partners have launched 22 good practices (GPs) from all over the world.

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Human Rights Watch Documents on domestic workers

Human Rights Watch Documents on domestic workers

by IDWFED — last modified Dec 29, 2015 06:09 PM

Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. Human Rights Watch has published many reports on migrant domestic workers and child domestic workers.

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ILO documents – Labordoc

ILO documents – Labordoc

by IDWFED — last modified Dec 29, 2015 06:18 PM

A great source for all ILO documents: ILO – Labordoc It provides an increasing number of links to online publications available on the Internet.

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Domestic Workers in Kathmandu - Survey Report 2009

Domestic Workers in Kathmandu - Survey Report 2009

by IDWFED — last modified Dec 29, 2015 06:22 PM

Children-Women In Social Service and Human Rights (CWISH), Chabahil, Kathmandu.

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Guidelines on the design of direct action strategies to combat child domestic labour

Guidelines on the design of direct action strategies to combat child domestic labour

by IDWFED — last modified Mar 30, 2015 10:51 PM

Knowledge base guidance catalogue to help project planners to select and devise strategies and actions to combat child domestic labour at the action programme level.

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ILO-IPEC Interregional Workshop on child domestic labour and trade unions: Report, Geneva, 1 to 3 February, 2006

ILO-IPEC Interregional Workshop on child domestic labour and trade unions: Report, Geneva, 1 to 3 February, 2006

by IDWFED — last modified Mar 30, 2015 10:51 PM

The objective of the workshop was to examine the role of workers' organizations in the elimination and prevention of child domestic labour, to identify specific strategies which workers¿ organizations would be particularly well-equipped to undertake and to contribute to the elaboration of an ILO-IPEC manual for trade unions on child domestic labour.

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