XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Adriana Paz Ramírez has served as General Secretary of the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) since October 2023, an organization that represents 94 domestic workers unions in 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America and the Middle East with a total of more than 690,000 domestic workers.

From 2017 to 2023, she served as the Regional Coordinator for Latin America at the IDWF, leading union organizing processes and capacity-building efforts across the region. She currently leads the global strategy of the federation, with a focus on the ratification and effective implementation of ILO Convention 189, ILO C190, Migration and domestic work and the care economy to improve the living and working conditions for domestic workers worldwide.