This article is from a study that was done to study human rights abuses against the most marginalized societies in the Gulf Countries. The study focuses particularly on workers from the Tamil Nedu region and observing that the highest amount of abuse against this population is occuring in the Middle East with the highest numberContinue reading “India’s National Domestic Workers Movement Confronts Violations of Migrants’ Rights in the Gulf | Advancing the rights of migrant workers throughout the Middle East | Migrant Rights”
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Saudi Arabia: Labor Crackdown Violence | Human Rights Watch
“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”
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”
Shedding light on the “invisible workforce”
September 5th, 2013 has become a day to celebrate! It has marked an important step to a social movement making a difference to more than 50 million people, most of them women. Convention 189, Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers has come into force. Finally there is some shed of light to the millionsContinue reading “Shedding light on the “invisible workforce””
Decent work for domestic workers – Convention 189
Convention 189, also known as the Domestic Workers Convention, is to come into effect this September 5th, 2013. It is the first convention of its kind, providing basic global standards to protect domestic workers. There are millions of women and girls employed in domestic work, hired to clean, cook, take care of the children andContinue reading “Decent work for domestic workers – Convention 189”
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