IDWF - International Domestic Workers Federation

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Essential workers have shown through the COVID-19 pandemic that we are the backbone of the global economy.

The strength of global recovery depends on how much governments and corporations  invest in programs, infrastructure, and social protections that support essential workers, like us, around the world.

September 8-10, we’ll take the stage among world leaders at the Essential for Recovery Summit to lay out a vision for a just economic recovery that prioritizes protections for the workers who will continue to keep the world running for years to come.

We are #Essential4Recovery.

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Essential workers are the people who have kept the world running through the COVID-19 pandemic — and long before. More than two-thirds of the employed population in emerging and developing countries are in informal employment, like #domesticworkers, agricultural workers, waste pickers, street vendors, caregivers & home-based workers.

Essential workers supported the needs of the global community over the past year and it’s time our needs are deemed essential as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

We’re ready to hear from them from September 8-10 at #Essential4Recovery to lift up their experiences and what we need for a just recovery.

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Have you seen the exciting list of special guests joining us for the #Essential4Recovery Summit?

Along with essential workers from around the world, we’ll discuss how we can improve working conditions for essential workers during the pandemic recovery.

A new tomorrow begins with us.

👂 Watch Binti's sharing: https://youtu.be/f2Ebkwput0M

"I hope employers and the public can see the contribution of domestic workers for the economy of employers and the state, especially during the pandemic. Respect and value us as workers."

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From September 8 through September 10, essential workers from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia will meet with global business and government leaders to discuss a framework for a just economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is the first global gathering of essential workers.

Join us as we bring together essential workers with key figures from world governments and global employers to collaborate on the path forward.

👉 RSVP TODAY : https://bit.ly/essential4recovery

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“For domestic workers, the line between work and life is often blurred. Our labor enables other sectors in the global economy to stay afloat, but without adequate social protections, we’re barely surviving. A just recovery must set in motion protections against violence, harassment, and access to financial relief for all workers, especially care workers who have been undervalued or overlooked,” said Novelita V. Palisoc from the International Domestic Workers Federation, a member of United Domestic Workers of the Philippines (UNITED).

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👂 Watch Meriam's sharing: https://youtu.be/JlGHYVfd5AY

"I want to help my fellow migrant domestic workers. The challenge that I am facing right now is there is no medicine in Lebanon. I want to be the voice of the voiceless migrant domestic workers who are facing abuse and maltreatment here in Lebanon especially in the time of the pandemic. I really want to challenge those people that if they can help us so that we continue, we can continue working."

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From September 8 through September 10, essential workers from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia will meet with global business and government leaders to discuss a framework for a just economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first global gathering of essential workers.

Join us as we bring together essential workers with key figures from world governments and global employers to collaborate on the path forward.

👉 Register TODAY: https://bit.ly/essential4recovery

#essential4recovery

#domesticworkersareworkers

✅ Invitation to #Essential4Recovery Summit: https://bit.ly/essential4recovery

"I started as an organizer because of my background of working as a domestic worker before that really gave me the motivation and inspiration to do the work that I do. Part of the work that we do as a union is mobilize and organize domestic workers and recruit them into the union so that they can come and amplify issues and voices of domestic workers collectively." - Ruth Khakame, Chairperson, KUDHEIHA, Kenya

✊ Watch Ruth's video: https://youtu.be/XTnUzftSlYI

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"We cannot fully recover or rebuild a better world if we don’t urgently and effectively protect all people, including those who work in the informal economy and make up 61% of the global workforce. In South Africa, this year, domestic workers have had a historic victory. We are now covered under COIDA, the compensation entitlement for when a worker is injured or falls ill  while on the job. This is especially important as essential workers are at the forefront of the pandemic, but they seldom have similar protections,” said Myrtle Witbooi, a former domestic worker and current president of the International Domestic Workers Federation.

“A strong recovery for domestic workers, street vendors, agricultural workers, and other informal economy workers will be the linchpin for a strong global economic recovery. At the Essential for Recovery Summit, workers from around the world will unite to make an urgent call to national governments and international organizations to address our demands for better income and social protections, so we can weather this crisis and also build a better future for ourselves.”

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✊ July 13 is the foundation date of the #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement. On this occasion, we interview Doug Moore, Executive Director of United #DomesticWorkers of America, as a unionist in whose work labor and racial justice are intertwined.

✊ The Battle is Not Over: We will Keep Uplifting Domestic Worker's Voices: https://bit.ly/36vhj4R

❓ On BLM’s foundation date, what should social movements learn? A social justice movement that “does not see color,” what is it not seeing?

✅ First, I would like to ask them “how do you not see color?” Does everybody just look alike, and you do not see color?

To me, you are building a movement in the wrong way. You should say we are all in this together, we do come from different lives and backgrounds but what do we have in common:

We want to build power for domestic workers regardless of their race, what continent they are from. We are all one: See their color and see it for what it is! Magnify it, do not vilify it.

✊ Domestic worker, share this practical Guide with your employers.

✊ Employers, share this useful Guide with your domestic workers.

📌 English : https://bit.ly/COVID19G-OSH-EN

📌 Spanish : https://bit.ly/COVID19G-OSH-ES

📌 Portuguese : https://bit.ly/COVID19G-OSH-PT

It offers guidelines and promote safe and healthy work practices. It will be helpful for taking preventive measures against the contagion of COVID-19 and other risks associated with the pandemic.

✊  Start a conversation and protect everyone in your household and community!

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📣 Happy International Domestic Workers Day!

📌 Read our statement: http://bit.ly/IDWF-2021C189

🌐 The Silver Lining: Domestic Workers Organizing One Decade On - IDWF Statement on June 16, 2021

📌 Read our latest report "Ten Years Since Winning C189: Domestic Workers Become an Unstoppable Movement" : http://bit.ly/10YsinceWinningC189

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❓ How are you going to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the C189?

Join us on June 13!  https://bit.ly/IDWF-W613

We are going to present this beautiful "IDWF Calendar of Domestic Workers Movements 2022 - Domestic Workers of the World Unite!" : the first-ever Calendar we have for domestic workers!

Come and let's celebrate together with this special Calendar!

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=== About the Webinar ===

🌐 10 Years of Resilience: a Celebration of the Domestic Workers Convention 🌐

📌 Date : 2021 June 13, Sunday

📌 Time : 9:00pm-10:30pm Hong Kong Time (Check your time here : http://bit.ly/613Time）

📌 Place: Zoom Platform

📌 Register: https://bit.ly/IDWF-W613

On April 28, World Day for Safety and Health at Work, the IDWF demands:

The consideration of COVID-19 as an occupational, with the insurance of paid sick leaves for domestic workers.

The inclusion of domestic workers in the coverage of occupational health and safety laws, provisions, and protocol.

The prioritization of domestic workers in vaccination plans: for vaccines to be available, accessible, and free.

The ratification and implementation of ILO Conventions C189 and C190.

There is no safe way to emerge from this pandemic without the insurance of health and safety at work for domestic workers. No Recovery is Possible without us: Health and Safety at Work for Domestic Workers

Read our full statement: http://bit.ly/2021WD4SHW

The IDWF is joining 181 Organizations for Women's Rights Call Upon United Nations (UN) Security Council to Hold Myanmar Military Accountable for Violence Against Women!!

"Our families are in fear, we are in fear," shares Zarni, a Burmese woman migrant domestic worker in Thailand, whose organization is affiliated with the IDWF (Network of Domestic Workers in Thailand - NDWT), “We, as Burmese, will we be able to go back to our homeland? Will we be able to meet our families?”

Amplifying the people’s call for justice, together, the 182 members of the global women’s rights movement call upon the Security Council: "We are now asking you to take all necessary measures against the Myanmar military, in order to break the cycles of violence and abuse that have gone on for too long."

Read the full press release and our letter to UN: http://bit.ly/Myanmar182

✊ "Whether in the fight against fragile contracts or the unionizing fight, we believe that if there is internal political will and international solidarity, migrant domestic workers will have their rights.”

🆙 Read our full report of the 2020 Dec 18 Webinar where the IDWF gathered to celebrate migrant workers resistance across borders and movements :

http://bit.ly/IDWF-IMD2020RP

✊ "If we are to build back better and to envision a world where labor is fair and free from violence, we need to reflect on the positionalities of migrant domestic workers throughout the cycle, and examine their unionizing efforts from the pre-departure stage, to integration, to return and reintegration."

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