Creating the enabling environment to progress women workers’ representation and to support women workers to organise collectively and access their rights.
Member briefing: Convention 190 on Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190) was adopted in June 2019, marking a significant victory for informal workers.
While all the evidence shows that sexual harassment is a huge problem faced by women in garment factories in Bangladesh and India, it somehow does not appear in corrective action plans in audits.
The ILO is in a process of considering whether to establish a new convention on “Ending violence and harassment against women and men in the world of work”.