Preparation day for International Labour Conference

Here we are in Geneva and it feels amazing to have managed to bring five young domestic workers from India, Peru and Togo to the International Labour Conference. Although we had great difficulty getting visas for three of the young people...we made it (with a lot of help...thank you all the staff at Human Rights Watch and the ILO in Geneva!!). Our first day was spent preparing for the conference - finding out how the International Labour Conference (ILC) works and, in particular, how the 'children's champions' (young people who are acting as champions for child domestic workers from 6 countries across the world) will lobby the ILO members. We are under no illusions that this will be an easy task - but we are motivated, we are committed and, today, we started to see the connections between the lives of child domestic workers from different cultures and contexts - despite our language barriers!

Tomorrow we visit the UN for the first time to join the ILC and to lobby for our recommendations.