This article reports on an agreement signed between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka to protect domestic workers and procedures that should be implemented and monitored to ensure labor rights and prevent human rights abuses. Among these initatives it includes fair pay, prohibition of confiscation of passports, contracts drafted in a language understoodContinueContinue reading “Standardizing recruitment processes coming from Sri Lanka to work in Saudi Arabia”
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Morocco: Revise Draft Law on Domestic Workers | Human Rights Watch
Morocco has presented a draft law that would grant domestic workers legal protections similar to other workers. The law will be discussed in parliament with the opportunity to set Morocco up to date with international standards. However, this draft law, although a step forward, does not meet the standards set in the Convention 189, theContinueContinue reading “Morocco: Revise Draft Law on Domestic Workers | Human Rights Watch”
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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