International Day of Solidarity with Foreign Domestic Workers
The recent Day of Solidarity (28 August) was marked by CARAM Asia with a statement that opens as follows.
‘Most migrant women in Asia are working as foreign domestic workers. Such predominance in domestic work is obvious in countries where female migrants outnumbered men, such as the Philippines and Sri Lanka. As today marks the International Solidarity Day with Foreign Domestic Workers, CARAM Asia and its members call on government throughout the world to immediately amend national employment laws to recognise domestic workers as workers with rights no less than other categories of workers.’
