Regional Advocacy Strategy on ILO's Domestic Workers Convention in the Arab States (2012

Date Shared:

Monday, December 30, 2013 - 12:00

Title:

Regional Advocacy Strategy on ILO's Domestic Workers Convention in the Arab States (2012 - 2014)

Countries and areas:

Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia

Partner(s):

ILO Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Thematic Area:

Data and research, Labour migration and mobility, Policy coherence and mainstreaming, Rights of migrants

Tags:

Migration in the United Nations, Policy Coherence, Data and Research, Migrant Domestic Workers, Empowerment and Rights of Migrants

Summary:

The regional advocacy initiative aims to determine ways in which national laws could be adapted to conform with the new international legal standards, as well as to examine the possibility of Arab States ratifying the Domestic Workers Convention. The program will focus on Bahrain, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman over a period of two years.

GFMD Source:

GFMD 2013-2014 - Thematic Meeting 1 "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda ".

Link:

For more information:

http://www.ilo.org/beirut/projects/WCMS_226948/lang--en/index.htm