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Ireland: It's official! Ireland ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention
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Sep 02, 2014
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May 21, 2015 03:17 PM
Ireland is the 15th ILO member State and the third EU member State to ratify this instrument which seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.
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Jamaica: IDWF leader Shirley Pryce receives national award
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by IDWFED
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Aug 31, 2014
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IDWF Exco member, Shirley Pryce is awarded the Order of Distinction by Governor General of Jamaica for her dedication to Jamaica Household Workers Union and Caribbean Domestic Workers Network. She will receive the award on 20 Oct 2014, the National Heroes Day, at the King's House.
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Kuwait: Kuwaiti families bring in 30,000 domestic workers annually
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by IDWFED
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Aug 30, 2014
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Jan 21, 2015 04:08 PM
While expressing his complete approval of establishing a special authority to bring domestic labor from abroad in order to eliminate the shortcomings of the current demography and limit crimes, MP Kamel Al-Awadhi stressed that both the PM and the interior minister had seconded his proposal to establish a special company answerable to the Interior Ministry to be responsible for bringing domestic labor to the country so that it can protect both workers and sponsors.
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India: Domestic Workers air their woes
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by IDWFED
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Aug 27, 2014
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Jan 21, 2015 04:16 PM
The two-hour-long convention was attended by domestic workers from all over Mumbai and Navi Mumbai who spoke about their grievances. The workers, most of them women, focused on economical and social upbringing. The two most important points were decent wages and education of their children. They spoke about their needs through songs which a group of them sung there.
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Nepal: National Dialogue and Plan of Action of Domestic Workers
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Aug 22, 2014
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Oct 24, 2014 12:24 AM
2014 Aug 22, National Dialogue and Plan of Action of Domestic Workers.
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Lebanon: The ongoing plight of Lebanon's domestic workers
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by IDWFED
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Aug 21, 2014
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Jan 21, 2015 04:22 PM
Beirut Much like data for its native population, Lebanon underestimates both the numbers of Palestinian and Syrian refugees and, in the most ironic of all cases, it also purposefully undercounts domestic laborers. The presence of approximately 750,000 expatriate laborers has created a Pandora’s box for the Lebanese as most domestic workers struggle with work permit issues and, when those were secured, with violence.
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USA/Global: Five Things You Didn't Know About Human Trafficking
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by IDWFED
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Aug 19, 2014
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Nov 02, 2015 09:25 PM
With 21 million people around the world in forced labor, what can we do?
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Lebanon: A Judicial Blow to the Sponsorship System: Employer Must Return Domestic Worker’s Passport
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by IDWFED
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Aug 14, 2014
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Jan 21, 2015 05:03 PM
The ruling discussed in this commentary concerns the case of a female migrant domestic worker whose passport was withheld. The violation addressed in the lawsuit is, of course, no unique occurrence, but rather a very widespread one in Lebanon. This is a country where slavery has taken the form of a sponsorship system in which the “sponsor” is the “master”. Behavior such as that of employers withholding workers’ identification documents, or confining them to their homes, has thus become socially “acceptable” among broad segments of its population.
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Hong Kong: FADWU meeting with Labor Department about wages increase
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Aug 14, 2014
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Oct 24, 2014 12:28 AM
2014 Aug 14, representatives of FADWU meeting with the Labor Department about wages increase.
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2014.8.13 Guinea: SYNEM press conference
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Aug 13, 2014
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Oct 22, 2014 04:45 PM
Guinea: SYNEM press conference on disaffiliating from the trade union national centre, CNTG
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