Indonesia slapped moratorium on domestic workers to Malaysia in 2009 after multiple cases of abuse there.
In 1938, when Congress enacted the original minimum wage and overtime laws, they excluded domestic workers.
Many governments have finally begun to recognize the risks and exploitation domestic workers face.
Few of the domestic workers, especially those born in the 1980s and after, could take this.
It estimates there are as many domestic workers in London now as in Victorian times.
Huge numbers of migrant domestic workers, mostly from Asia and Africa, are employed throughout the region.
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It documents numerous cases of similar abuse suffered by women who seek foreign employment as domestic workers.
Adding to the price tag is a steady decline in the number of domestic workers in the market.
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Brazil is amending its constitution to state that domestic workers have all the same rights as other workers.
Many of the domestic workers are poor Asian women from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Nepal.
There are no quotas or numerical limitations on the latter, and no test whether domestic workers are being displaced.
Hong Kong has about 300, 000 domestic workers, mainly from the Philippines and Indonesia.
Anju, 42, is one of 1.8 million domestic workers in the United States.
Her case was unusually brutal, but the abuse of domestic workers in the Middle East is all too common.
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During 2012, dozens of countries took action to strengthen protections for domestic workers.
And they can protect millions of other domestic workers who labor with precariously few guarantees for their safety and rights.
Indonesia's Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar last year announced the country planned to stop sending domestic workers abroad from 2017.
Between 1998 and 1999, domestic workers who had broken their visa restrictions were offered the chance to come clean without penalty.
" She says: "I'm disgusted when people don't regard foreign domestic workers as humans with the same feelings and aspirations as others.
The demonstrators included farm labourers, domestic workers, union leaders and immigration activists.
But groups campaigning for domestic workers say the government is merely scare-mongering.
The Convention also has specific protections for domestic workers under the age of 18 and provisions for regulating and monitoring recruitment agencies.
It will be harder for domestic workers accompanying foreign employers to stay.
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And it should be harmful to domestic workers, although the evidence of large negative effects of immigration on domestic workers is difficult to find.
The family's case, like that of many other Sri Lankan domestic workers abroad, has been taken up by a member of parliament, Ranjan Ramanayake.
And with unemployment stubbornly stuck near 10%, there is no better time than now to relieve domestic workers from the burden of capital income taxation.
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She is also executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and was named one of Time magazine's Most Influential People in the World.
Domestic workers had argued that denying them permanent residency was unconstitutional.
They cite cases of domestic workers who have their passports taken and are not allowed to leave the homes of the families they work for.
In a new report this week, the International Labour Organization says that nearly 30% of the world's domestic workers are completely excluded from national labor laws.
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