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Beautiful life

Yayang is an Indonesian girl who came to Hong Kong and work, dreaming to improve her quality of life in Indonesia someday. Yet, she is hired as domestic helper by a grassroots family that has unstable financial status. Despite the fact that Yayang is underpaid by her employer, close bond is developed between her and the family. This makes Yayang faces the dilemma of staying or quitting this job for a better salary. Would beautiful life still remain a dream for her?

Building a Future with Decent Work: Youth Employment and Domestic Workers

On the Domestic Workers Session:

The 2012 NGO Consultation aimed at offering an occasion for NGOs working for/with Domestic Workers to gather and share main concerns and difficulties encountered in their actions for the ratification of ILO Convention C189 and the effective recognition of Domestic Workers' rights.

Decent work for Domestic Workers in Asia and Pacific - Manual for Trainers

In this manual published by IDWN and ILO, we present the voices, experiences and visions of domestic workers. It aims to stimulate reflection and discussion on domestic work and how domestic workers and their allies can work together towards realizing their objectives.
 
It is primarily for trainers and can be used by domestic workers’ organizations, associations and groups, trade unions, civil society organizations (CSOs), migrants’, women’s and human rights organizations.

The Only School We Have Learning from Organizing Experiences Across the Informal Economy

Compiled and edited by Christine Bonner and Dave Spooner

This handbook is a resource for those organizing informal workers in any sector, though it is based on the organizing experiences in (mainly) four groups: domestic workers, home-based workers, street/market vendors and waste pickers. It draws on the themes, ideas and information generated at the Organizing Workshop, together with additional background materials, case studies and analysis.

Domestic Workers Organisations in Africa

The African domestic workers network exists to promote and achieve decent work conditions for domestic workers in the region, in the view of the reality that the conditions of their work are generally characterized by insecurity, abuse and exploitation. The network recognizes the critical importance of unionization as a tool for the better. It therefore seeks to promote such unionization in all countries in the Africa region to consolidate a strong call for social justice in respect of domestic workers.

 

Organisations des Travailleurs Domestiques en Afrique

Le Réseau African des Travailleurs Domestiques est créé pour promouvoir et réaliser les conditions du travail décent pour les travailleurs domestiques dans la région, du fait que généralement leur travail est caractérisé par l’insécurité et l’exploitation. Le réseau reconnait le rôle primordial de la syndicalisation dans l’amélioration de la situation. Par conséquent il faut promouvoir une telle syndicalisation dans les pay africains en vue de consolider la justice sociale dans le respect des travailleurs domestiques.

IDWN Solicitud de Afiliación

IDWN Formulario de solicitud de afiliación¡Únase a IDWN!

Este documento invita a las uniones y a las asociaciones de trabajadoras y trabajadores del hogar que se unan a IDWN. Describe cuál es y hace IDWN e incluye un formulario de solicitud de afiliación.

IDWN Demande d'adhésion

Formulaire de demande d'adhésion à l'IDWNJoignez l'IDWN!

Ce document invite les syndicats et les associations des travailleuses et travailleurs domestiques pour joindre l'IDWN. Il décrit ce qu'est et fait l'IDWN et inclut un formulaire de demande d'adhésion.

IDWN Membership Application

IDWN Membership Application FormJoin IDWN!

This document invites domestic workers' unions and associations to join IDWN. It describes what IDWN is and does and includes an application form.

Achieving decent work for domestic workers - An organizer's manual to promote ILO convention 189 and build domestic workers' power

ILO ACTRAV, 22 May 2012

The adoption by the International Labour Conference, on 16 June 2011, of ILO Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 on decent work for domestic workers, was an historic step in the struggle for social justice worldwide. It was the culmination of several decades of domestic workers’ organizations and trade unions campaigning to end exclusion, and gain recognition for the rights of domestic workers.

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