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Domestic Worker Convention: More Chance of Change in the Middle East?

By John Gee
Published in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2011

In June 2011, the International Labor Conference (ILC) will decide whether to adopt or reject a … Read More

February 2, 2011
ILC votes to adopt a Convention supplemented by a recommendation for domestic workers (5 June 2010)

MFA at the ILC’s 99th Session and HRC’s 14th Session

Migrant Forum in Asia is currently participating in the 99th session of the International Labour Conference 2010 (ILC, 2-18 June) … Read More

June 9, 2010
MFA Statement at the 2nd Session of the Domestic Workers’ Committee

MFA STATEMENT AT THE SECOND SESSION
OF THE DOMESTIC WORKERS’ COMMITTEE
99th Session of the International Labour Conference
Geneva, 3 June 2010

A vast majority of the UN-estimated 60 million … Read More

June 3, 2010
International Campaign For The Recognition Of Domestic Work As Work

The fair and equal treatment of domestic workers has been among the major concerns of Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) in its advocacy for the protection and promotion of the … Read More

June 3, 2010
Saudi Arabia: Domestic Workers Face Harsh Abuses

(Jakarta, July 8, 2008) – Saudi Arabia should implement labor, immigration, and criminal justice reforms to protect domestic workers from serious human rights abuses that in some cases amount to … Read More

April 7, 2010
Foreign Domestic Workers Reiterate Their Call To Restore 1998 Wage Of $3,860

The Coalition for Migrants’ Rights (CMR), a coalition of seven migrants’ grassroots organizations and trade unions in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China has been campaigning hard for the … Read More

April 7, 2010
Domestic workers talk about abuse in teary ‘court session’

SINGAPORE: She was hit with a spoon and slapped hard for waking up “late” at 7.30am. Foreign domestic worker Mary Rose Catador Colocar was also ordered to stand and sit … Read More

November 23, 2009

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