News and articles on domestic work

  1. Domestic workers

    Colombia ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention

    12 May 2014

    Colombia is the fourteenth ILO member State and the eight Latin American member State to ratify this instrument that seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.

  2. © Ernesto Benavides / AFP 2023

    Paraguay

    Rights to social protection: domestic workers are no exception

    06 May 2014

    A communications campaign to enrol more domestic workers in Paraguay with social security is showing the first signs of success.

  3. Labour Standards

    Argentina ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention

    24 March 2014

    Argentina is the thirteenth ILO member State and the seventh Latin American member State to ratify this instrument that seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.

  4. © Saeed Khan / AFP 2023

    International labour standards

    Domestic workers: The need to speed up change

    04 March 2014

    We need to step up the speed of change to better protect domestic workers throughout the world, says ILO Wage Specialist Malte Luebker six months after the entry into force of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers.

  5. Press release

    Tanzania launches an action plan to promote decent work for domestic workers

    27 February 2014

  6. Video

    Migrant Domestic Workers: Ensuring Human Rights and Making Decent Work a Reality

    29 January 2014

    This video is a compilation of the voices that were collected from speakers who were in attendance at the side event entitled 'Making Decent Work a Reality for Migrant Domestic Workers' at the UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development (HLD). It specifically highlights the key messages of the discussion that took place and the recent launch of the Global Action Programme on Migrant Workers and their Families.

  7. News

    Working conditions: time for EU Member States to implement the ILO domestic workers convention

    28 January 2014

    The European Commission welcomes the adoption by the EU's Council of Ministers of a Decision authorising Member States to ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention concerning fair and decent work for domestic workers.