News and articles on domestic work
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Domestic Workers' Day
An aging Asia increases the demand for domestic workers. But what about their rights?
16 June 2019
Mr. Nilim Baruah, International Labour Organization’s Regional Migration Specialist for Asia and the Pacific, reviews progress on migrant domestic workers’ rights in Asia.
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TRIANGLE in ASEAN
High rise, low pay: Experiences of migrant women in the Thai construction sector
12 December 2016
This video summarises the 2016 ILO study High rise, low pay: Experiences of migrant women in the Thai construction sector. It is the first study specifically on women migrant workers in the construction industry in Thailand, and provides key insight into this large and growing sector.
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Press release
ILO to launch reports on experiences of women migrant workers in Thailand and Malaysia
06 December 2016
Ahead of International Migrants Day (18 December), the ILO will hold a launch event for two new reports.
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Domestic worker
No one should work this way – ending the abuse of Asian domestic workers
01 December 2014
There are more than 52 million domestic workers worldwide but the vast majority are unprotected by labour laws. This leaves them open to – sometimes terrible – abuse and exploitation. The journalist Karen Emmons worked with the photographer Steve McCurry on a documentary project to record and expose some of the treatment experienced by Asian migrant domestic workers.
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Press release
ILO Thailand welcomes new regulation to improve conditions for domestic workers
06 November 2012
The ILO Country Office for Thailand welcomes the passing of a new Ministerial Regulation that will better protect domestic workers in the Kingdom of Thailand, approved on 30 October and to be implemented this year.