This report is part of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children of the UN Commission on Human Rights. It highlights Bosnia and Herzegovina’s commitment to combating trafficking in persons, as evidenced by its legislative and policy. The report focuses ...
This report consists of a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective, and three empirical case studies from Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom. It explores the difficulties skilled migrant women can face in transfe...
This report summarizes a two-day expert group meeting on highly skilled women migrants. The meetings aimed at: a. Review evidence on the nature, scope and impact of highly skilled migrant women in countries of origin and destination. b. Share good practices related to the issue. c. Examine the mo...
This article sheds light on the gendered dynamics of mobility and explores the relationship between the feminization of migration and the development of migrant women’s societies of origin. It discusses the consequences and challenges, which female migrants are facing within the frameworks ...
The book is a result of a research project about trafficking in women for labour exploitation in domestic work. It addresses the issue of trafficking in women for forced labour in Spain, Cyprus and Greece, focusing on Lithuania as a country of origin of migrant domestic workers. The study uses a ...
This publication aims to contribute to the preparation of policies to fight gender-based violence in the labour world. It also seeks to improve the sharing of good practices on eliminating gender-based violence and promote relevant key ILO messages. The first section presents the methodology used...
This report focuses on migrants in an irregular situation employed in domestic work in the European Union (EU), which is dominated by women. The term "domestic worker" is used to refer to housekeeping and caring for dependents, such as children, older persons and persons with disabilities. The re...
This report is based on a pilot study aimed at exploring the common attitudes and practices of Lebanese employers towards domestic workers, most of whom are women. It is both a quantitative and qualitative study basedon discussion groups and individual interviews as well as data collection. The s...
This booklet presents a set of international labour standards adopted on 16 June 2011 by the ILO' s International Labour Conference. These standards provide the basis for improving the working and living conditions of domestic workers performing work that has been historically undervalued and tra...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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