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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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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Indian waste workers fear loss of income from trash-to-electricity projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For five hours every day, Ranjit Kumar and his 10-year-old son rummage through a giant pile of rotting trash with their bare hands, filling bags with pieces of metal, plastic and glass to take by cart to the recyclers market nearby. But an incinerator under construction not far away may mean that he and other [...]]]></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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