develop_region:
Latin America & Caribbean
iso2:
PY
iso3:
PRY
Continent:
Americas
Official name:
Republic of Paraguay
Paid domestic work employs many women in developing countries. Paraguay, where 94 percent of domestic workers are women and more than 90 percent of these jobs are informal, represents an extreme case of a problem that is common throughout the globe. These workers lack access to social security and generally endure precarious working conditions. What are the different legal, institutional, social and gender barriers that prevent domestic workers from having greater access to social security?
100 years of social protection: The road to universal social protection systems and floors is a compendium of country studies on the development of national social protection systems mand floors. It includes studies about the historical development of social protection in countries, and how international social security standards and the development of comprehensive national legal frameworks contribute to creating coherent and inclusive social security systems.
“We want our fundamental human rights and our right to development to be respected,” said Hipólito Acevei.
Acevei, who is the president of the Federation for Indigenous Peoples’ Self-Determination of Paraguay, has spent a lifetime fighting to improve the living conditions of indigenous peoples in the South American country.
Story of Walberto Valdez: "I have been fishing for 20 years to support my family". Join us in the fishing community of Villeta, on the banks of the Paraguay River, where Walberto Valdez, a dedicated fisher, makes his daily journey. This is the setting for the FAO's SocPro4Fish project, which impacts the lives of families like Walberto's.
Using a range of countries from the Global South, this book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. The country studies use panel data to study the dynamics of worker transitions between formal and heterogeneous informal work.
Paid domestic work is an occupation that has historically faced discrimination. This situation has been socially normalized and has even been long supported by regulations that granted fewer rights to domestic workers and condemned them to precarity. Over the last decades, organized domestic workers’ struggle has led to legal reforms in many countries, which allowed for the recognition of their labour rights. These demands and efforts were strengthened in 2011 due to the adoption of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189).
