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entails specific commitments to regulate all aspects of recruitment, placement
and work, including with regard to migrant domestic work.
• The Human Rights Council and other appropriate inter-governmental forums
should address domestic servitude through appropriate mechanisms. Universal
periodic review recommendations should address domestic servitude and
related shortcomings in the protection of domestic workers.
• States should consider ratifying ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child
Labour (No. 182) and the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and withdraw reservations
excluding domestic workers from the scope of application of conventions to
which they are a state party.
• Treaty bodies should attribute particular attention to all forms of domestic
servitude when considering state party reports.
99.
Domestic servitude is rooted in entrenched patterns of gender discrimination
and discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity and caste. At the heart of the
problem is the fact that work in or for the household, whether paid or unpaid, is
undervalued:
• States should reinforce their efforts to implement the commitments agreed at
the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the Durban Review
Conference.
• Senior Government officials, religious and community leaders should publicly
acknowledge the value of domestic work to society and emphasize the equal
dignity and autonomy of domestic workers.
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