Forty-five percent aren't even entitled by law to a weekly day off.

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Siti worked for six months--often 18 hours a day, for employers who wouldn't allow her a weekly day off--but she wasn't able to send one cent back to Blitar, her home in East Java.

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Thailand, and Singapore approved measures to give domestic workers a weekly day off, while Venezuela and the Philippines adopted broad laws for domestic workers ensuring a minimum wage, paid holidays, and limits to their working hours.

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