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Mexico: Decent Work for Female Domestic Workers

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by IDWFED published Mar 29, 2012 12:00 AM
Contributors: Grupo Fórmula
The Institute for Women of Mexico City (Inmujeres-DF) reiterates its support in the scope of its capacity for the ratification of Convention 189 and Recommendation 201 by the International Labor Organization (ILO), instruments which establish internationally the labor standards for a decent work in the sector of domestic work.

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MEXICO -

The Institute for Women of Mexico City (Inmujeres-DF) reiterates its support in the scope of its capacity for the ratification of Convention 189 and Recommendation 201 by the International Labor Organization (ILO), instruments which establish internationally the labor standards for a decent work in the sector of domestic work.

Inmujeres-DF has been weaving a network of strategic alliances with the dedicated instances of the Government of the Federal District and organizations to this subject, to impel in Mexico City the regulation of domestic work as a form to vindicate the human rights of women, to work jointly to create a frame of recognition of this activity that contributes to palliate the needs of this sector.

For this reason, the Inmujeres-DF proposes an agreement for the implementation of interinstitutional affirmative actions in the matter of attention to the female domestic workers of Mexico City, to establish policies of education, culture, social reintegration, qualification for the work and the implementation of productive projects.

Also to design and to execute a sensitization campaign destined to the employers so that they recognize this employment as a profession with rights and obligations.

On the other hand the thematic Forum will be realized “Decent Work for the Female Domestic Workers” the 18 of April in the National Museum of Stamping which has the objective to make a call to the competent instances so that they review the legal frame in which this employment is in force, recognizing right that is undeniable to domestic workers.

Read the article in Spanish.

Source: Grupo Fórmula

Story Type: News

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