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Child domestic workers are large in number, yet remain invisible, unreachable and marginalised both economically and socially. The issues, challenges and exploitation that children face as domestic workers are often overlooked because the work they perform is not seen as labour. However, when a child is placed in a household to perform domestic work, then that household becomes a workplace as much as a factory is a workplace. Unfortunately, many people are not aware of the real and common dangers for children and violation of the their rights in domestic work situations, nor of the need and obligation to protect the rights of children and ensure their welfare. Hence, there is a need for effective advocacy. Raising One Voice: A Training Manual for Advocates on the Rights of Child Domestic Workers is a resource and practical training guide to help organisations who work with child domestic workers to train and develop advocates using the concepts and frameworks in the Handbook. It is our fervent hope that this manual will help organisations to improve on the competence and capacities of advocates in order that they may be more effective in efforts to change the lives of child domestic workers. Raising One Voice: A Training Manual for Advocates on the Rights of Child Domestic Workers is a product of collaboration among Child Workers in Asia (CWA) and the CWA Task Force on Child Domestic Workers, the International Labour Organization International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC), and Anti-Slavery International (ASI). The Program on Psychosocial Trauma and Human Rights of the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS PST) was tasked to facilitate its development and draft the text.