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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 ...