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Oscar-nominated actress Yalitza Aparicio rose to fame in the film Roma, where she played the role of an indigenous domestic worker. There are an estimated 67 million domestic workers worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women. , lack of access to social coverage systems makes domestic staff particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The domestic staff who clean our house and take care of our families are in the greatest threat of obtaining it,” Ms. Aparicio said, highlighting the existing crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, 70% of those affected have been affected by measures to face the pandemic. In a video message from the International Labour Organization (ILO), Ms. Aparicio defended the rights of indigenous and domestic peoples and highlighted their vulnerability to COVID-19.
Most of those other people “work informally and get unfair wages,” said the actress, who is also a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
For domestic workers, there are only two options, she explains: avoid receiving a source of income or exposing yourself to the threat of COVID-19.
Given this precarious situation, as well as the lack of social coverage systems and emergency health services, Aparicio calls for measures that allow these employees to remain at home and in good physical shape “without being further impoverished. “
“Let’s make them covered by labor law and emergency measures because in doing so we are forging a bigger world,” he said.
According to the ILO, COVID-19 threatens the livelihoods of more than 55 million people who are engaged in domestic work, adding 37 million women.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, between 11 and 18 million more people are engaged in paid home painting; 93% of them are women. Domestic painting accounts for up to 14% of female employment in the region.
A recent study through the ILO, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) estimates that as of early June, 70 per cent of domestic staff in the region had been affected by measures taken to address the pandemic.
“The crisis has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and inequalities,” says Vinícius Pinheiro, ILO Director for Latin America and the Caribbean. You give them positions in position through governments.
The ILO highlights the importance of paid home paints as a key sector of the region’s care economy, drawing attention to their contribution to sustainable living and economic recovery.
The study – Paid domestic staff in Latin America and the Caribbean in the face of the COVID-19 crisis – recommends tactics to mitigate the effects of the health, economic and social crisis caused by the pandemic on domestic staff:
Read more about what actress Yalitza Aparicio is saying about protecting domestic workers in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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