Today, December 12th is a day to take action towards promoting and protecting the rights of domestic workers worldwide. There are events taking place in over 84 countries to celebrate this day. Today is a day to remember the millions of domestic workers worldwide that are in need of protection of their rights.Project 189 supportsContinueContinue reading “December 12th – global day for action for domestic workers rights”
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News from Tanzania: Call to Honour the Rights of Domestic Workers
ZANZIBAR Minister for Social Welfare, Economic Empowerment, Youths, Children and Women Development, Ms Zainab Mohammed, has called upon domestic employers to observe all the rights of their workers. allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Call to Honour the Rights of Domestic Workers.
Advances to protect the rights of domestic workers
On September 5th, 2013 the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers (Convention 189) came into force. This groundbreaking step establishes tha basic global standards for domestic workers, who are mainly women and girls, and migrant. Since the adoption of Convention 189 there has been progressive movements of dozens of countries to ratify the ConventionContinueContinue reading “Advances to protect the rights of domestic workers”
Decent work for domestic workers – Convention 189
Convention 189, also known as the Domestic Workers Convention, is to come into effect this September 5th, 2013. It is the first convention of its kind, providing basic global standards to protect domestic workers.There are millions of women and girls employed in domestic work, hired to clean, cook, take care of the children and elderly,ContinueContinue reading “Decent work for domestic workers – Convention 189”
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