BANGALORE: Those women who help you breathe easy during the busy morning hours will now be able to claim more benefits. The government will soon include domestic workers in the health insurance scheme it is introducing for labourers from the unorganised sectors. The scheme initially planned for labourers like construction workers will be extended to [...]

Indonesian maids overseas will soon get a pay raise if a state-sponsored agency successfully negotiates an increase in their minimum salaries with governments abroad. The National Board for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers (BNP2TKI), is focusing on wages in the Asia Pacific region and Middle East, a top official said Wednesday September [...]

With news outlets scrambling to cover the latest stories about Indonesian migrant workers abroad, from a beheading in Saudi Arabia to the latest roundup of illegals in Malaysia, the well-being of local household workers is usually ignored. Experts say that maids and nannies in Jakarta face many of the same issues of abuse as workers [...]

The Steering Council of the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) in commemoration of the 100th year of the International Women’s Day in March 2011 and in furthering its mission to strengthen the unity and advance the struggle of Asian rural women, invites you to submit nominations for its special award Honouring 100 women to mark [...]

ILO Convention 189 recognises Domestic Workers as Workers “This is an outstanding achievement for women workers, a victory that has always been theirs from the start of the struggle for equal rights.”- Menaha Kandasamy, CAW Chairperson. A groundbreaking International Convention on Domestic Work was adopted at the 100th session of the International Labour Organisation on [...]

PRESS RELEASE 1 April 2011 � 100 years of Women’s Resistance: Rights, Empowerment and Liberatio (Chennai, India) Rallying behind the theme “100 years of Women’s Resistance: Rights, Empowerment, Liberation,” around 40 women rural women leaders, representatives and activists from eight Asian countries gathered for a 2-day conference here on March 29 and 30.  In a keynote [...]

There is a high correlation between poverty and informalisation, said Dr Rubina Saigol, gender expert in the National Consultation on the National Policy for Home-based workers: Provincial framework, challenges, opportunities and way forward’, organized by HomeNet Pakistan on 19 March 2011. She said there was a preponderance of women in the informal sector of employment [...]

One of the CAW’s member groups from Sri Lanka, the Women’s Centre, celebrated the International Women’s Day in a festive manner on 6th March 2011 in Katunayake.  A march and a rally were held under the themes “Let Us protect the rights of women workers” and “Let us rally to get a pay hike” on [...]

More domestic workers in the country will suffer mistreatment unless the government and the House of Representatives counterparts pass a law on domestic workers protection, activists say. Many female domestic workers, including women and girls, were living and working under poor conditions, where they were being exploited economically and suffering physical, psychological and sexual violence [...]

On 15 February 2011 the death of 14-year old domestic worker Sunarsih ten years ago in Indonesia will be commemorated by women workers, migrant and local domestic workers, women’s rights advocates and labour support groups all over Asia. Committee for Asian Women (CAW) joins JALA PRT, TUNAS MULIA and all domestic workers organisations in Indonesia [...]