“Saudi authorities have spent months branding foreign workers as criminals in the media, and stirring up anti-migrant sentiment to justify the labor crackdown. Now the Saudi government needs to rein in Saudi citizens who are attacking foreign workers.” Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director Saudi authorities have spent months branding foreign workers as criminals inContinue reading “Saudi Arabia: Labor Crackdown Violence | Human Rights Watch”
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Morocco: Revise Draft Law on Domestic Workers | Human Rights Watch
Morocco has presented a draft law that would grant domestic workers legal protections similar to other workers. The law will be discussed in parliament with the opportunity to set Morocco up to date with international standards. However, this draft law, although a step forward, does not meet the standards set in the Convention 189, theContinue reading “Morocco: Revise Draft Law on Domestic Workers | Human Rights Watch”
Advances to protect the rights of domestic workers
On September 5th, 2013 the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers (Convention 189) came into force. This groundbreaking step establishes tha basic global standards for domestic workers, who are mainly women and girls, and migrant. Since the adoption of Convention 189 there has been progressive movements of dozens of countries to ratify the ConventionContinue reading “Advances to protect the rights of domestic workers”
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