domestic workers

The British government introduced new measures to help protect domestic workers from abuse by their employers.

Her case was unusually brutal, but the abuse of domestic workers in the Middle East is all too common.

The document affirms domestic workers' rights to a minimum wage, a weekly day off and a limit to their working hours.

"Domestic workers are dying in Lebanon at a rate of more than one per week, " said Nadim Houry, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.

Legitimate rights and interests of domestic workers will be legally binding contract, the system deserves protection.

Its goal is to limit working hours, guarantee weekly days off, ensure a minimum wage and protect domestic workers from violent employers.

Compared with other professions, domestic workers are more likely to face sexual harassment and victims are entirely women.

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Female domestic workers usually seek work abroad out of desperation.

Thousands of domestic workers in Saudi Arabia endure beatings, starvation and other abuses, a Human Rights Watch report said.

In much of the Middle East domestic workers are also excluded from legal employment protection.

New measures were introduced to help domestic workers.

In the Middle East several countries are drafting legislation about domestic workers and are looking to the convention for guidance.

A member of a low caste of agricultural and domestic workers in southern India and Burma.

Huge numbers of migrant domestic workers, mostly from Asia and Africa, are employed throughout the region.

Until 'house work' is valued and female workers are treated with dignity, foreign domestic workers will continue to suffer.

At least 30, 000 Cambodian women are employed as domestic workers in Malaysia.

On Saturday he signed an order banning Cambodian recruitment firms from sending domestic workers to Malaysia.

The website is dedicated to monitoring media reports on the deaths of foreign migrant domestic workers in Lebanon.

close behind is to reduce the corporate tax, borne in no small part by domestic workers.

That includes people like labourers, street vendors and domestic workers.

The campaign to grant migrant domestic workers greater rights in the region has been led by Human Rights Watch.

In a lonely example Jordan extended its labour laws in 2008 to cover domestic workers.

The Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers has been three years in the making.

In Singapore, the government implemented new measures aimed at addressing abuses of foreign domestic workers.

Others now have hotlines for domestic workers to report abuse.

Many domestic workers are never paid their full salaries and have little chance for redress.

That may do as much as any treaty to improve the plight of domestic workers.

Kuwait - The country is host to more than 660, 000 migrant domestic workers from Asia and East Africa.

Yet Kuwait's new minimum wage for laborers of about $209 per month excludes 500, 000-plus domestic workers.

More than 90 percent of the 240, 000 domestic workers in Malaysia are Indonesian.

The minimum-wage law won't cover the tens of thousands of live-in foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong.

the British Government introduced new measures to help protect domestic workers

Inspecting workplace conditions in Malaysia and creating accessible complaint mechanisms for migrant domestic workers who suffer abuse;

Overseas domestic workers in private households

Minimum wage protection for domestic workers (1974);

Allowing domestic workers the freedom to seek the same type of work