SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 62

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The Special Representative strongly supports the development of new ILO standards to ensure decent work for domestic workers. They open avenues for improving the protection of children from exploitation in domestic service and from any form of violence associated therewith. Child domestic workers, especially girls, are highly vulnerable to violence. Working in private households, often behind closed doors and away from their own home with little or no protection or social support, they are exposed to excessive working hours, hazardous tasks, social stigma and discrimination, and physical and emotional violence, as well as sexual abuse. The Special Representative remains committed to supporting this important standard-setting process and the adoption of binding provisions for the protection of children and young domestic workers.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Document type
SRSG report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2010
Paragraph type
Other
Paragraph number
62