Domestic workers are often migrants with few skills and little formal education, even relative to other low-skill, highly vulnerable populations. Most are women and girls, which further exacerbates their vulnerability to forced labor, exploitation and abuse, and trafficking. Compared to its estimated rate of prevalence, few investments to-date have been made in protecting domestic workers.
GFEMS works to protect the rights of domestic workers and to transform the systems that perpetuate their exploitation.
Trafficking and enslavement of domestic workers is perpetuated by systems of supply, demand, and an enabling environment that does not protect workers or survivors. To bring sustainable change, we need solutions that: reduce worker vulnerability, shift demand away from exploitative labor, and ensure that proper regulations and mechanisms exist to end impunity for traffickers.
Domestic workers are often migrants with few skills and little formal education, even relative to other low-skill, highly vulnerable populations. Most are women and girls, which further exacerbates their vulnerability to forced labor, exploitation and abuse, and trafficking.
To reduce the number of vulnerable domestic workers, we work with communities to address root economic vulnerabilities, raise awareness, and ensure domestic workers and their families are properly prepared. For victims and survivors, we work to build sustainable, safe, and survivor-informed reintegration approaches and services.