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Asia Pacific: News & Updates from Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
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by Meredith McBride
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Mar 07, 2015
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A summary of the updates and activities from IDWF, affiliates, and domestic workers around Asia from December 2014 to January 2015
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Asia Pacific: News & Updates February 2015
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by Meredith McBride
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Apr 30, 2015
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Aug 30, 2015 05:33 PM
Updates from around the region during February 2015
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Peru: Centro de Capacitación para Trabajadores del Hogar (CCTH)
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by Meredith McBride
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Oct 21, 2014
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Jul 31, 2015 06:54 PM
Training Centre For Workers (CCTU)
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Peru: Instituto de Promoción y Formación de Trabajadoras del Hogar (IPROFOTH)
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by Meredith McBride
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Oct 21, 2014
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Jul 31, 2015 06:53 PM
The Institute for the Promotion and Training of Domestic Workers (IPROFOTH)
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Peru: Sindicato de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores del Hogar de la Región Lima (SINTTRAHOL)
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by Meredith McBride
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Oct 21, 2014
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Jul 31, 2015 06:53 PM
Union of Workers and Household Workers Region Lima ( SINTTRAHOL ) is an autonomous trade union founded on March 8, 2008. The group is affiliated to the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), and was born to defend our rights and fight against discrimination, exploitation and violation of labor rights and human rights of the household workers.
Currently SINTTRAHOL is an organization recognized by the Ministry of Labour No. 106519-09 in Lima.
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UAE: Indonesian Domestic Workers subject to abuse
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by Meredith McBride
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Oct 22, 2014
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Oct 25, 2014 04:12 PM
Frequent news reports about abuses of Indonesian domestic workers who migrate to the Gulf show that Tahira’s experience was not unique. Tahira, whose name was changed for her protection, was one of the 4.3 million Indonesians estimated to be working abroad in 2012. Approximately 76 percent are women, and 90 percent of those are domestic workers. Many of them migrate to the Gulf.
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Philippines: Myrna Padilla, a former domestic worker, develops an app to help protect overseas workers
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by Meredith McBride
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Oct 25, 2014
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Oct 29, 2014 06:56 PM
Myrna Padilla spent over two decades as a domestic worker abroad before returning home to the Philippines. She developed an app to connect overseas foreign workers together to help prevent them from abuse.
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Lebanon: Domestic workers create the first union in the Middle East
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by Meredith McBride
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Jan 10, 2015
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Mar 30, 2015 01:38 PM
The middle east is home to 2.4 million domestic worked. For the first time in the middle east, domestic workers have created a trade union to collectively fight for better rights
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Former UAE Ambassador to pay former domestic workers €80,000 each for abuse
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by Meredith McBride
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Mar 09, 2015
Ireland's Employment Appeals Tribunal demanded that Khalid Nasser Rashid Lootah, a former ambassador from the UAE, pay his three former domestic workers after he was found to have abused them.
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