On March 8, 2023 — International Women’s Day — WIMN co-sponsored a rally outside of the United Nations to raise visibility of women workers, including migrant, rural and displaced women workers.
At the event we called for:
- Safe, rights-based and regular migration pathways
- End to the Kafala System and exploitative short-term/temporary labor programs
- Universal access to regularization for all undocumented migrants
- Freedom of expression
- Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
- Decent work, including safe and healthy working environments and maximum limits on working time
- Ratification of ILO Conventions related to Migration (C97 and C143)
- Ratification of ILO Convention 189 on Domestic Work
- Ratification of ILO Convention 190 on Gender Based Violence in the World of Work
- Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Women Workers
- Quality Public Services and Universal Social Protection
- Fair Wages and end to Wage Theft
- Rights and protections for women and girl internal migrants
Check out photos from the event (photo credits: Tequila Minsky and @Women Power Unions)
