More national initiatives needed to protect the rights of domestic workers

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More national initiatives

needed to protect the rights

of domestic workers

e forces of globalisation greatly impact the social positions and opportunities of

domestic workers. Using a cross-country comparison, DomEUAL identied key

inuential factors in the promotion and enforcement of domestic workers’ rights and

analysed the role of gender.

There are 52.6 million domestic workers around the world,

of which 43 million are women and 7 million children. The

International Labour Organization’s Convention 189 was initiated

in 2011 to protect the rights of these domestic workers, which

had been long neglected. As the Convention makes domestic

work an issue of global governance, it has triggered a wealth of

activities at both the grassroots and policy levels.

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