Publications on domestic work
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ILO Policy Brief
From global care crisis to quality care at home: The case for including domestic workers in care policies and ensuring their rights at work
08 March 2024
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Social protection
ILO Strategy on extending social protection to migrant workers, refugees and their families
30 January 2024
All members of society have the right to social security, including migrant workers, refugees, and their families. However, they face numerous legal and practical obstacles in accessing social protection. Based on the principles of equality of treatment and non-discrimination, well-designed and inclusive social protection systems and international cooperation, are powerful tools to reduce poverty, inequality, social exclusion and achieving sustainable development.
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TRIANGLE in ASEAN
The ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour: A review of the implementation of Recommendations (3rd to 14th Forums)
06 September 2023
This report is the sixth in a series of progress review background papers, biennially prepared by the ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, that track the progress of ASEAN stakeholders in implementing recommendations adopted at previous AFMLs.
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Publication
Review of National Social Protection Legislation and Legal Frameworks for Migrant Workers in the Gulf Countries
23 June 2023
Extending social protection to migrant workers in the Gulf Countries
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Short Report
The road to decent work for domestic workers
05 June 2023
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Domestic workers
Policy review on social security for domestic workers in Thailand
28 April 2023
This policy review focuses on the legal framework around domestic work and barriers, profile of domestic work in Thailand, challenges for domestic workers to access social protection and possible means to address them, and the ILO’s recommendations for immediate actions and strategic options to extend the Social Security Section 33 to domestic workers in Thailand.
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Publication
Guidance note: Wage protection for migrant workers
27 April 2023
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Women migrant workers
Media representation of women migrant workers: A critical look
09 February 2023
The study reviews how overseas women migrant workers are characterized in print and electronic media in accordance with gender, class and geographic stereotypes. It critically assesses how women's multiple roles as workers, earners, investors, mothers and daughters, etc. are overshadowed by simplistic narratives focusing on exploitation and victimhood
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Domestic Workers
Making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers: A global review of policy trends, statistics and extension strategies
13 June 2022
This ILO report provides data on social protection deficits experienced by domestic workers and identifies the barriers standing in the way of their effective social protection coverage.
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Executive summary
Making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers: A global review of policy trends, statistics and extension strategies [Executive summary]
13 June 2022
This ILO report provides data on social protection deficits experienced by domestic workers and identifies the barriers standing in the way of their effective social protection coverage.