This report is based on research among women migrant workers carried out by thirty organisations and individual researchers across twenty-two countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The aim of the research was to document the nature of violence, harassment and exploitation that women migrant workers face, how they deal with it, and their demands for change.

Overwhelmingly, the data across continents and work sectors pointed to similar trends. Women Migrant Workers (WMWs) experience a continuum of gender-based violence and harassment, ranging from verbal insults to severe physical abuse, rape and sexual assault, psychological abuse and bullying, before, during and after their migration. WMWs do not experience physical and sexual violence and harassment as stand-alone problems. They are part of a system in which labour is violently extracted from their bodies.

Gender-based violence cannot be considered in isolation from the patriarchal, capitalist and racist system in which that violence is perpetrated. The work that many women do is systematically unrecognised and undervalued, in an economic system that seeks to continually drive down costs to extract profit at the expense of human welfare.

Download the complete 28-page report Demanding Justice: Women Migrant Workers Fighting Gender-Based Violence here.

Download the six-page summary of findings on violence and harassment that migrant domestic workers experience here.

Download the ten-page summary of findings on violence and harassment that migrant garment workers experience here.

En español: Descargue el reporte completo de 28 páginas “Exigiendo justicia: las trabajadoras migrantes que luchan contra la violencia de género” AQUI.

En français: Téléchargez l’intégralité du rapport de 28 pages « La demande de justice : les travailleuses migrantes qui luttent contre la violence sexiste » ICI.