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The Global Union IUF and IRENE have built up an international network “RESPECT AND RIGHTS FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS’ a project for which the IUF takes the responsibility and which is based on the recommendations of the international conference ‘Protection for Domestic Workers’. A decission very much welcomed by the organisations present at conference.
Find here an overview of the developments and reports of activities. You can be included in the list ‘to be kept informed’ – contact AvLuijken@irene-network.nl  or Anneke.vanLuijken@iuf.org 

PROTECTION FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS
International conference organised by a coalition of organisations, supported by the ITUC, held on 8-10 November 2006, at the headquarters of the FNV trade union federation, Amsterdam.
The outcome is a start of an international network to campaign of workers' rights and legal protection for domestic workers world-wide.

OUT OF THE SHADOW: ORGANISING DOMESTIC WORKERS
Towards a protective regulatory framework for domestic work.
ETUC conference, Brussels, 14-15 April 2005.
The ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation) in cooperation and IRENE and PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, Brussels), organises an international seminar to examine organizing and policy-making initiatives regarding a specific part of the (informal) economy: the provision of domestic services.

CAMPAIGNING STRATEGIES ON INFORMAL LABOUR IN THE GLOBAL GARMENT INDUSTRY
Include the informal economy workers in labour right campaigs.
Meissen, Germany, 23-25 September, 2004

DECENT LABOUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY
11-13 May 2004 - Berlin, Germany

ORGANISING IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY
An international conference of membership-based organisations (unions, federations, associations, alliances and networks) who are directly organising workers in the informal economy, was held in Ahmedabad, India from 3-6 December 2003.

AN EAST - SOUTH ENCOUNTER to discuss:
trade union organising in the informal economy
"FROM MARGINAL WORK TO CORE BUSINESS".
11-12 January 2003

DECENT WORKING CONDITIONS FOR INFORMAL ECONOMY WORKERS 5 - 7 April 2002

MAKE YOURSELF SEEN! MAKE YOURSELF COUNT!!!
"Organising Women workers in the informal economy - Initiatives and alternatives to self-employment". 19 - 22 June 2000.