anti-slavery international and child domestic labour

Anti-Slavery International has been developing its programme on child domestic workers over the past 15 years, leading research, developing advocacy strategies and raising awareness on the realities of child domestic workers’ lives.

‘Protecting child domestic workers from abuse and exploitation’ is a current project of Anti-Slavery International's delivered in 6 countries through a partnership with Asociacion Grupo de Trabajo Redes (Peru), Defensa de Ninos y Ninas Internacional (Costa Rica), Visayan Forum Foundation (Philippines), National Domestic Workers Movement (India), WAO Afrique (Togo) and Kivulini (Tanzania).

Over the next four years, the project will work towards improving the situation of child domestic workers by:

• Conducting research on the psychosocial impact of domestic work. Previous research has put to light the work conditions of child domestic workers, the abuse that they can experience and has given children themselves a voice to reflect on their situation. We are now working towards obtaining evidence on the nature and scope of the impact of domestic work on children’s psychosocial wellbeing.
  
  
• Assisting and supporting groups of child domestic workers through a programme of small grants. This programme is administered by our partners in each of the 6 countries where we operate and is dedicated at providing direct support to child domestic workers as well as build the capacity of the groups and organisations they are part of.
  
  
• Based on our research and our small grant programme, we are developing advocacy work at local, regional, national and international levels to raise awareness about the situation of child domestic workers, strengthen actions that support them and influence law making processes. Through our advocacy work, we consolidate and expand our network of organisations working on preventing the abuse and protecting child domestic workers.

Take action

• Support the HOME ALONE: End Domestic Slavery campaign
  

Resources

• Anti-Slavery child labour reports
• Links and other reports on child domestic work
• AGTR Research on child domestic work
• DFID project progress reports