Time to make decent work a reality for domestic workers
Protestors demonstrate in Nairobi on May 19, 2022 against the murder of a Kenyan domestic worker in Saudi Arabia. Failure to ratify such global conventions predisposes workers, especially women and girls who survive through domestic work to abuse and exploitation.
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), there are 75.6 million domestic workers. Kenya accounts for over two million with the prospect of the number being higher as no national census to establish the number.
Since 2019, Kenya has trained over 7,000 domestic workers monthly for the global market, especially the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries of Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia, where it has bilateral labour agreements (BLAs) for unskilled labour.
