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Africa: Uganda
Ugandan Migrant Domestic Workers -
Challenges and organizing successes
HTS-Union (UHFTAWU) helped this worker return from the UAE and recovered the Ugx. 2,000,000 recruitment fees she had paid from the agency that trafficked her. Read the story >>>
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Asia: India
How "development" forces women to migrate
Under the auspices of development, many women are displaced, forced to migrate, and face exploitation. In India, many domestic workers are internal migrants displaced from their communities because their livelihoods were destroyed by mining, deforestation, and other types of "development". Read more >>>
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Europe: Spain
Sign Petition for C189 Ratification in Spain
The campaign for C189 ratification is underway in Spain, by Grupo Turin. Please sign this petition to lend our international support!
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Latin America
Migrant Domestic Workers in Latin America
IDWF and its affiliates, together with a global network of organizations that work to protect migrant workers, join forces and develop different actions, services, research and resources in their struggle to guarantee the human rights of all domestic workers independently of their nationality or immigration status. Highlights in the region >>>
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North America: USA
“When there is an extreme power imbalance, people—particularly women—are vulnerable to slavery.”
Last month an article entitled “My Family’s Slave,” published in the magazine The Atlantic, went viral on social media in the US and Philippines. NDWA responded to the article with an OpEd in The Atlantic written by our Direcotr, Ai-jen Poo entitled, “Lola Wasn’t Alone: Slavery Persists in Homes Across America,” shining a light on how common trafficking is in domestic work and what survivors are doing to end it. Read more >>>
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Resource Highlight
June 16 -
International Domestic Workers Day
The IDWF website is full out useful resources. Each month we’ll pull out one more to highlight. In honor of International Domestic Workers Day (IDWD) we want to share two >>>
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