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The new contract that is set to take effect in the six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council seeks to improve working conditions to the estimated 2.4 million foreign domestic workers in the area. The contract looks to achieve certain guarantees for domestic employers such as limiting the work day to 8 hours, aContinueContinue reading “New Labour Contract for immigrant domestic employers in the GCC”

Congratulations Switzerland on becoming the 16th ILO member to ratify the Convention No. 189 that seeks to improve the conditions for domestic workers around the globe. To read the full report follow the link below from International Labour Organization. Domestic workers: Switzerland ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189).

The Kafala System, which is a sponsorship program in which migrant domestic labour force is brought to work and monitored to countries such as Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, has policies in place that constrains the employees to have no movability, once being brought and sponsored by their employer despite the case of going throughContinueContinue reading “Human Rights Watch on the new influential role of UAE in ILO”

Domestic work, should be treated as any other type of employment, in which legal protection is enforced, were the amount of working hours are regulated as well that working conditions are safe and take place in a respectful environment, but the particular characteristics of domestic work, may give ground to a modern form of slavery. ContinueContinue reading “Illustration of a domestic worker’s story”

Some laws that intend to solve or regulate certain issues, may bring parallel damage to the efforts in preventing domestic workers abuse. For example, the tied up visa laws, were domestic workers loose their legal immigration status if they leave their employer. Many countries have in place such law, with the intention to regulate immigration;ContinueContinue reading “TIED UP VISA LAWS – DAMAGING EFFORTS ON DOMESTIC WORKERS RIGHTS”

This manual presents and explains how to use a working time tool that was designed for live-in domestic workers to record and calculate their working time and rest periods. The working time tool was originally designed as a response to the concern that live-in domestic workers work extremely long hours, while their employers often feelContinueContinue reading “A manual to help domestic workers calculate their working time”

Modern slavery is difficult to detect, and at the same time it is something that can be happening anywhere at anytime. Despite common belief that slavery is something from the past or that occurs only in isolated places, far away from us, it is something that can be happening right in front of us withoutContinueContinue reading “Understanding Modern Slavery a Short Film by Modernslavery.co.uk”

A comprehensive understanding of domestic workers conditions, involves a thorough investigation of the particular situation from different ends. ILO has published guidelines to carry out investigations that can be useful when designing qualitative studies. Such guidelines are in a preliminary state, since they are based in experiences from the studies carried in three countries (Tanzania,ContinueContinue reading “TOOLS FOR RESARCHING DOMESTIC WORK CONDITIONS”

This is a catalogue provided by the ILO compiling all the latest data on resources and policy tools on domestic work. You can download it here: Catalogue – ILO resources on domestic work 

Interview by Migrant-Rights.org to Alix Nasri an ILO consultant who also is one of the authors of a recently released research study. Such research seeks to answer what are the reasons preventing domestic workers in Lebanon to have access to justice, such study was developed alongside ILO and Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center. Access to justiceContinueContinue reading “Q&A by Migrant-Rights to Alix Nasri, ILO consultant, following research study of Lebanon Domestic Workers”