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		<title>Exclusion of Foreign Maids in HK Minimum Wage Hit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A group of migrant workers in Hong Kong, including Filipinos, lambasted the Legislative Council’s (LegCo) final vote against the inclusion of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in the statutory minimum wage. “Slavery, marginalization and discrimination have now been put into law in HK. There is neither justice nor democracy in the Legislative Council’s (LegCo) vote against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAW&#8217;s Press Statement: Indonesia must enact Domestic Workers Protection Law now</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate release. 10 June 2010 Indonesia must enact Domestic Workers Protection Law now Committee for Asian Women calls on the Indonesian parliament to prioritise the deliberation and enactment of the Domestic Workers Protection Bill of 2010, submitted to the House of Representatives in 2009 for the purpose of recognising legal rights of domestic workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decent Work Still a Dream for South Africa&#8217;s Domestic Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 06:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The abuse of domestic workers, the majority of whom are women, is still widespread in South Africa despite calls for the government to intensify the implementation of the domestic workers law. The Sectoral Determination 7: Domestic Worker Sector law, which was promulgated in 2002, set minimum wages and conditions such as working hours, leave days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t forget Inem, domestic workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jakarta &#8211; Not all domestic workers in Indonesia are as lucky as Inem, Indonesia’s favorite maid in Nya Abbas Akub’s 1976 blockbuster comedy Inem Pelayan Seksi (Inem, the sexy maid), who ended up marrying her employer’s boss and living happily ever after. In fact, Inem did much to romanticize the life of domestic workers, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housemaids’ issue heats up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JEDDAH: There is a move on the part of Saudi authorities to stop housemaids coming from certain countries. “We are serious in imposing a ban on the import of housemaids from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Cambodia and Vietnam,” said Ali Al-Quraishi, vice president of the local Labor Recruitment Committee. “The main reason for considering such a [...]]]></description>
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