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Vietnam boosts migrant training as ban set to end
Taipei Times - 6 July 2015 - Hanoi is stepping up training for Vietnamese workers who seek employment in Taiwan, as Taiwan prepares to lift a decade-long ban ...
Debt bondage behind Hong Kong sex trade
CNBC - 8 December 2014 - The brutal murders of two Indonesian women in Hong Kong at the start of November made sensational headlines, but less noticed are the ...
MOL asked to restrict foreign domestic workers
The China Post - 14 April 2015 - Lawmakers yesterday passed a resolution to ask the government to set up a “wealth exclusion clause” on hiring foreign ...
Jakarta to send only 'skilled' workers abroad
Asia One - 28 November 2014 - Indonesia's Manpower Minister has clarified comments that Indonesia will stop sending maids abroad by 2019, saying the country ...
Indonesia maintains moratorium on domestic workers
Gulf Times - 14 September 2015 - Indonesia will continue to stand by its decision not to send domestic workers to the Middle East, Indonesian Minister of ...
A primer on ILO CONVENTION No. 189 (Domestic Workers Convention) & RA 10361 Domestic Workers Act (Batas Kasambahay)
Often performed by family members, particularly women, domestic work is neither recognized as a formal component of the economy nor properly compensated. When ...
Long-Distance Parenting
The Atlantic - 24 March 2015 - Migrant mothers from the Philippines are raising kids through care packages
Myanmar halts sending workers to Malaysia over visa fees
AA - 18 January 2016 - Labor agencies in Myanmar have suspended sending workers to Malaysia to protest against a tenfold increase in visa fees, officials said ...
Catalogue of ILO Resources on Domestic Work
This catalogue gives an overview of the most important ILO knowledge resources and policy tools. Next to a short abstract you will find information about the ...
Hidden workers
Dawn - 27 January 2015 - IN the morning hours when you leave for office you find women, young and middle-aged, sitting in groups at the edges of the streets of ...
Jokowi to halt sending Indonesian domestic workers overseas
Astro Awani - 14 February 2015 - Indonesian President Joko Widodo wants to stop the sending of domestic migrant workers to other countries.
Int’l Red Cross, Red Crescent to launch help line for women migrant workers
Inquirer - 12 May 2015 - Various formations of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movements are uniting to establish an international help line which ...
Threatened, assaulted, trapped: Asia's treatment of domestic workers laid bare
CNN - 27 July 2015 - "The first time she hit me was pay day; she told me to sign my name on a piece of paper, but I asked, 'why should I sign when you didn't ...
Indonesia stops sending migrant workers to 21 middle eastern nations
Antara News - 4 May 2015 - The government has decided to stop sending Indonesian migrant workers to 21 countries in the Middle East as part of a policy to ...
The global plight of domestic workers: few rights, little freedom, frequent abuse
The Guardian - 17 March 2015 - A quarter of the world’s 53 million domestic staff have no labour rights, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation, beatings and ...
No one should work this way: Ending the abuse of domestic workers in Asia
ILO Newsroom - 22 December 2014 - Although there are more than 52 million domestic workers world-wide, including more than 21 million in Asia Pacific, only a ...
Maid death draws attention to flouting of domestic worker ban
Myanmar Times - 23 November 2015 - A Myanmar domestic worker in Singapore fell 18 storeys from a condominium and died on October 19, according to police ...
Faces of hard truths: A photographic exhibition on migrant domestic workers exposes the shocking abuse some suffer at the hands of their employers
Bangkok Post - 19 December 2014 - Haryatin lost her sight in Saudi Arabia. She first left Indonesia in 1998 to work as domestic help. Her first employer was ...
Filipino Migrant Worker Spends 10 Years Photographing Hong Kong On Her Days Off And Wins Prestigious Scholarship
Demilked - 29 January 2015 - 27 year old domestic worker Xyza Cruz Bacani, a migrant worker from the Philippines, became famous for her street photographs of ...
Recognition for home-based workers demanded
Home-based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) on Sunday demanded the federal government to recognise the workers as per the labour laws. The right to social ...
Indispensable yet unprotected: Working conditions of Indian Domestic Workers at Home and Abroad
This study aims to provide policy-makers and service providers with deeper insight into the nature of forced labour and trafficking in this region. Armed with ...
Migrant workers to march for equal treatment on Sunday
Focus Taiwan - 9 December 2015 - Migrant workers will hold a march in Taipei on Sunday to call for equal treatment of all people involved in the provision of ...
1st Vietnam domestic workers group arrive after 10-yr hiatus
The China Post - 22 October 2015 - Following the lifting of a 10-year ban on certain categories of Vietnamese workers, the first batch of seven domestic ...
Migration in South-East Asia Policy Brief - Migration and Domestic Work
Policy brief outlining international standards, regional trends and good practices on migration and domestic work
Ministry fights foreign worker pay hikes
Taipei Times - 8 July 2015 - Taipei has said that if the food and lodging are considered, total compensation for foreign domestics approached the minimum wage
Moratorium violates workers’ rights: Migrant Care
Jakarta Post - 6 May 2015 - Rights group Migrant Care has slammed the government’s recent decision to halt the sending of migrant workers in the informal ...
Elis died of slave-like life in agency center
21 March 2015 - lidcom.org - An Indonesian migrant domestic worker recently died in a Hong Kong work agency hostel. We re-post an article from WKNews that ...
Kuwait: New Law a Breakthrough for Domestic Workers
Human Rights Watch - 30 June 2015 - Guarantees Crucial Rights, but Gaps Remain
Hong Kong's Hidden Shame
Hong Kong Coconuts - Early this year, dramatic images surfaced of a gaunt young woman covered in deep bruises and lacerations, her feet swollen and black from ...
For a fee: The business of recruiting Bangladeshi women for domestic work in Jordan and Lebanon
This working paper aims to shed light on the business models of labour recruiters that facilitate the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into ...