Overwhelmingly, ILO members voted in favor of an international Convention for the respect of domestic workers’ rights!
Convention 189 was approved by 396 votes in favor, 16 against and 63 abstentions.
The attached Recommendations were even more overwhelmingly approved with 434 votes in favor, 8 against and 42 abstentions.
See the our network’s response to the vote within the UN General Assembly!
Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO, stepped out of the proceedings to congratulate members of the network!
This is the beginning of a new era for over 100 million domestic workers all over the world who will start fighting for the ratification and implementation laws in their respective countries.
-Isabel Garcia-Gill
Communications Advisor, WIEGO & IDWN
Heartfelt congratulations for your success and perseverance, mighty women and men. The students, faculty and staff of the women’s studies department at Old Dominion University stand with you in international solidarity. Viva.
simply inspiring! viva! and congratulations on such a momentous occasion… your work will impact the labor of domestic workers for generations… keep up the good fight! in solidarity… robin ormiston
希望有更多的中国工人阶级，能够了解和参与国际劳工组织的会与和活动。更希望有真正的职工代表的发言！
“Hope that more Chinese working class, to understand and participate in the ILO will work with and activities. Would like to have a true representative of the workers!”
我是中国的一名普通劳动者，我一直在关注国际劳工组织的新闻，也浏览国际劳工组织驻北京局网站的内容。
也许，我是第一个，也许我是其中的一个，但是中国工人阶级开始走向了国际······！
“I am an ordinary Chinese workers, I have been concerned about the ILO’s news, and browse the website of the International Labour Organization in Beijing content.\nPerhaps I am the first, maybe I was one, but the Chinese working class began to international!”
Victory thanks to the ongoing and inspiring work of many domestic workers, of many activist and trade unionist, of many working in the functioning institutions.
Anneke van Luijken