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(...) Last June, the International Labor Organization, including governments, trade unions, and employers’ organizations, adopted the ILO Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, the first global labor standards for the estimated 50 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide.

My colleagues and I at Human Rights Watch have been investigating abuses against child domestic workers and migrant domestic workers for more than a decade. In Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, and in many other countries, domestic workers are excluded from basic labor protections guaranteed to other workers. These can include a minimum age for workers, limits to working hours and a weekly day of rest.
The Philippines played a key leadership role in developing the convention, chairing two years of negotiations. Hans Cacdac, recently appointed director of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, earned widespread praise for his skillful chairing of the final negotiations in 2011. Now the Philippines has the opportunity to be a global leader by being the first country to ratify, and therefore become legally bound by, this groundbreaking treaty. (...)

The article:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/12/protecting-domestic-workers

More about:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/04/invisibility-domestic-workers

Sull'argomento:

http://www.repubblica.it/solidarieta/diritti-umani/2012/05/10/news/medio_oriente_una_tratta_delle_schiave_nel_mercato_delle_lavoratrici_domestiche-34882641/

Passato...prossimo:

https://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3203:ilo-new-international-convention-on-domestic-workers&catid=46:diritti-umani&Itemid=105