80 percent of the world's women care workers face labor informality and lack of recognition, and women migrant care workers face even greater vulnerabilities at the intersection of gender, migration, and labor exploitation.
We call on governments to take urgent action to protect the rights of migrant care workers. This includes ensuring fair recruitment practices, decent working conditions, access to social protection, and pathways to regular migration status.
Migrant care workers contribute enormously to both their host and home countries' economies and societies. Yet they often work in precarious conditions with limited legal protections, facing exploitation, discrimination, and abuse.
At Tarangini Foundation, we join the global call for governments to ratify and implement international labor standards that protect all care workers, including migrants. We demand that care work be recognized as work and that migrant care workers be afforded the same rights and protections as all other workers.