The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how violence and harassment are systemic in the world of work, including gender-based violence. Now, more than ever, it is urgent to ratify and implement this convention. #RatifyC190.

In late December 2020, as the world ended the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), the Namibian government ratified the Convention. Since then, in the first weeks of 2021, Italy and Ecuador have also taken the decision to ratify the ILO Convention. Italy is the first European country and Ecuador will be the third country in the region after Uruguay and Argentina.

On 11 November 2020, Argentina became the third country to ratify ILO Convention 190, it's Chamber of Deputies approved the law with 241 votes in favour, one against and two abstentions.

Fiji became the second country to ratify the ILO’s Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190), after Uruguay did so on 12 June. With the deposit of this second ratification, the Convention will enter into force on 25 June 2021.

With 439 votes in favour, 7 against and 30 abstentions, the International Labour Conference (ILC) adopted on 21 June 2019, Convention 190 and Recommendation 206 on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work.

The success of this initiative in the fight to eliminate gender-based violence at work is due to several years of hard work by women trade unionists, starting at the ILO in 2015 and now rewarded by a new international instrument that deals with violence and harassment in a comprehensive way that includes everyone in the world of work.

PSI is calling on International Labour Organisation (ILO) member states to urgently ratify and bring into force new global legislation to end violence and harassment at work.

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