{"id":293,"date":"2011-06-09T15:37:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/beta\/statement-upholding-the-rights-and-dignity-of-domestic-workers-an-ilo-convention-after-63-years-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:37:27","slug":"statement-upholding-the-rights-and-dignity-of-domestic-workers-an-ilo-convention-after-63-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/statement-upholding-the-rights-and-dignity-of-domestic-workers-an-ilo-convention-after-63-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Upholding the Rights and Dignity of Domestic Workers: an ILO Convention after 63 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, Switzerland:\u00a0On June 9th, MFA representatives addressed the media to share reflections on the text of the Domestic Workers Convention, recently adopted by the Committee on Domestic Workers at the ILO. \u00a0Speakers included: Sr. Lissy Joseph from the National Domestic Workers Movement, India; Ellene Sana, Center for Migrant Advocacy, Philippines; and Hessen El Sayah, Caritas Lebanon. \u00a0They elaborated on the realities faced by domestic workers on a daily basis within Asia and worldwide. \u00a0While the Convention marks a significant milestone for domestic workers, there is much work to be done in order to see the provisions enshrined in the Convention realized through domestic law, and in practice in the homes of those who employ domestic workers.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pressconference_mfa_9june2011.pdf\">Statement: Upholding the Rights and Dignity of Domestic Workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pressconference_clmc_un_9june2011.pdf\">Speech of Hessen Sayah \u2013 Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, Switzerland:\u00a0On June 9th, MFA representatives addressed the media to share reflections on the text of the Domestic Workers Convention, recently adopted by the Committee on Domestic Workers at the ILO. \u00a0Speakers included: Sr. Lissy Joseph from the National Domestic Workers Movement, India; Ellene Sana, Center for Migrant Advocacy, Philippines; and Hessen El Sayah, Caritas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,101,14],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-workers","category-international-labor-conference","category-news-archive","tag-domestic-work"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}