News and articles on domestic work
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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.
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Labour standards
Ecuador ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention
18 December 2013
Ecuador is the eleventh ILO member State and the fifth 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.
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News
Argentina and Paraguay signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support ILO Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers
10 December 2013
Tripartite Commissions on Equal Opportunities of Argentina and Paraguay signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop different collaborative initiatives, among them - their role as advisory committee of the EU funded Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW).
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News
The Founding Congress of the International Domestic Workers' Federation (IDWF) - Taking a landmark step in the history of domestic workers worldwide
26 October 2013
The Founding Congress of the International Domestic Workers' Federation (IDWF) was held in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 26-28 of October 2013, gathering nearly 200 participants, including representatives from domestic workers' unions, ILO, the ITUC, Human Rights Watch, national trade centres, and supporting organizations from around the globe to mark the launch of the Founding Congress of the IDWF and to improve the working conditions of all domestic workers.
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Article
ILO Governing Body reviews progress on the situation of domestic workers worldwide
25 October 2013
The organization’s executive body discusses the measures that countries have adopted since the adoption of the ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention, as well as the steps that are needed to achieve decent working conditions for the world’s 53 million domestic workers.
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Comment by Guy Ryder
Child labour is no child’s play
08 October 2013
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Migrant domestic workers
ILO launches EU-funded programme on migrant domestic workers at UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development
03 October 2013
At a special side event on migrant domestic workers at the UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in New York, the “Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers” was launched by the ILO and its partners.