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	<description>Committee for Asian Women</description>
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		<title>Fix Minimum Wages: Domestic Workers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members belonging to the Tamil Nadu Domestic Workers&#8217; Welfare Association staged a demonstration near the Collector&#8217;s office on Monday January 23. Their demands included fixation of minimum wages for domestic workers&#8217; based on the price hike (index), to ratify the ILO convention supplemented by the recommendation on decent work for domestic workers, to ensure national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget Us Not: Maids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cabinet has struck a blow for the malnourished but another neglected section without which few houses in India can run is seeking the attention of policymakers. Domestic workers, India’s exploited and faceless army largely ignored by organised labour, are at the centre of a campaign being launched in India as part of a global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panel Wants Domestic Workers Brought Under Bill Against Sexual Harassment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A parliamentary panel has recommended that domestic workers be brought under the purview of the Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010. The comprehensive legislation seeks to protect women against sexual harassment at workplace and lays down a complaint and redress mechanism. Domestic workers, who make up 30 per cent of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodian Maid Death Numbers Shock</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cambodian embassy in Malaysia has reported that nine migrant domestic workers have died there this year, including one on Sunday, a rights activist and an opposition parliamentarian visiting Kuala Lumpur said yesterday. After a press conference held by the Malaysian rights group Tenaganita, Moeun Tola, head of the labour program at the Community Legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Cambodia Maids Hit Nerve in KL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Malaysia parliamentarian has lashed out at his own government and police for their “callous approach” in failing to take proper action in response to the deaths of nine Cambodian domestic workers in their country this year. Charles Santiago, a  member of the opposition Democratic Action Party, said yesterday his government and police  had “totally [...]]]></description>
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