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Laws Alone Not Enough, Domestic Workers Deserve Rights And Dignity: Experts
Laws alone are not sufficient if people make no effort to treat domestic workers as workers with rights like any other, experts said at a discussion held by the National Platform of Domestic Workers (NPDW) in Delhi.
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Programme To Teach New Skills To Domestic Workers In Karnataka
Chennai: Karnataka has launched a programme to teach new skills to domestic workers to help them avoid exploitation and broaden their job prospects, officials said on Tuesday. From cooks, babysitters and gardeners to laundry workers and carers for the elderly, the “Kaushalya Karnataka” – or skilled Karnataka – scheme aims to improve skills ...
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Kuwait Sets Minimum Wage For Domestic Helps In First For Gulf
Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic workers, in a first for Gulf states which have come under widespread accusations of abuse.
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Daughters Of Domestic Workers Join Hands To Campaign For Their Rights
Many children also work in the services sector - in restaurants and hotels or middle-class homes where they cook, clean and even take care of other children.
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Kuwait Female Doctor Jailed For Torturing African Worker
Kuwait's appeals court has sentenced a female physician to four years in jail for torturing her African household worker who became partially blind as a result, local media reported today.
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Saudi Arabia Clears Pact With India for Recruitment of Domestic Helpers
Saudi Arabia has approved a key agreement with India aimed at protecting the rights of Indian domestic workers, including maids, in the Kingdom.
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Migrant Workers in UAE Exploited, Abused: Report
Migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are beaten, exploited and trapped in forced labour situations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday.
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Singapore Warns Maid Agencies against 'Undignified' Advertising
Singapore has warned maid employment agencies in the city-state against "undignified" advertising following complaints by rights groups that domestic workers are being marketed as commodities.
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Devyani Khobragade case: rights of domestic help forgotten in India-US spat?
Sangeeta Richard doesn't fit into the popular idea of an exploited Indian domestic worker.
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Saudi Arabia passes kingdom's first domestic abuse law
Saudi Arabia has passed landmark legislation aimed at protecting women, children and domestic workers against domestic abuse, a human rights official said on Thursday, in a move aimed at reducing hidden violence against women in the kingdom.
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Laws Alone Not Enough, Domestic Workers Deserve Rights And Dignity: Experts
Laws alone are not sufficient if people make no effort to treat domestic workers as workers with rights like any other, experts said at a discussion held by the National Platform of Domestic Workers (NPDW) in Delhi.
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Programme To Teach New Skills To Domestic Workers In Karnataka
Chennai: Karnataka has launched a programme to teach new skills to domestic workers to help them avoid exploitation and broaden their job prospects, officials said on Tuesday. From cooks, babysitters and gardeners to laundry workers and carers for the elderly, the “Kaushalya Karnataka” – or skilled Karnataka – scheme aims to improve skills ...
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Kuwait Sets Minimum Wage For Domestic Helps In First For Gulf
Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic workers, in a first for Gulf states which have come under widespread accusations of abuse.
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Daughters Of Domestic Workers Join Hands To Campaign For Their Rights
Many children also work in the services sector - in restaurants and hotels or middle-class homes where they cook, clean and even take care of other children.
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Kuwait Female Doctor Jailed For Torturing African Worker
Kuwait's appeals court has sentenced a female physician to four years in jail for torturing her African household worker who became partially blind as a result, local media reported today.
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Saudi Arabia Clears Pact With India for Recruitment of Domestic Helpers
Saudi Arabia has approved a key agreement with India aimed at protecting the rights of Indian domestic workers, including maids, in the Kingdom.
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Migrant Workers in UAE Exploited, Abused: Report
Migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are beaten, exploited and trapped in forced labour situations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday.
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Singapore Warns Maid Agencies against 'Undignified' Advertising
Singapore has warned maid employment agencies in the city-state against "undignified" advertising following complaints by rights groups that domestic workers are being marketed as commodities.
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Devyani Khobragade case: rights of domestic help forgotten in India-US spat?
Sangeeta Richard doesn't fit into the popular idea of an exploited Indian domestic worker.
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Saudi Arabia passes kingdom's first domestic abuse law
Saudi Arabia has passed landmark legislation aimed at protecting women, children and domestic workers against domestic abuse, a human rights official said on Thursday, in a move aimed at reducing hidden violence against women in the kingdom.
