Domestic Workers Count Too: Implementing Protections for Domestic Workers

This Briefing Kit “Domestic Workers Count Too: Implementing Protection for Domestic Workers,” is informed by the experience of struggle, resilience and creative practice of local and overseas domestic workers and their support groups. It is an invitation to governments and all of us to implement protections for domestic workers.

The kit makes a compelling normative and development case for protecting domestic workers, based on interviews with governments, workers and employers from Bolivia, New York State in the USA, the Philippines and South Africa. It outlines the normative framework to promote and protect the rights of domestic workers and demonstrates how this can be operationalized, drawing on promising national practice worldwide, that embodies these standards and lessons learned from the same.

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Bibliographic information

Resource type(s): Good practices

UN Women office publishing: UN Women Headquarters Office

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Publishing entities United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)

Africa Arab States/North Africa Asia and the Pacific Bolivia, Plurinational State of Economic empowerment Employment Gender wage gap Human rights Indonesia Jordan Kuwait Latin America and the Caribbean Migrant workers Migration Nepal Philippines Qatar Rural women Social protection South Africa United States of America Unpaid work Women’s rights Zimbabwe