"Anti-slavery activists say thousands of children are going missing from some of India’s remote tribal areas as human traffickers respond to a surge in demand for domestic child labour in booming urban districts."
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Child trafficking in India: 'It was only after a few years I realised I had been sold' | Sutirtha Sahariah | Global development | The Guardian:
Showing posts with label Abuse of domestic workers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abuse of domestic workers. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Monday, March 2, 2015
Acting on a tip-off, TWC2 rescues a maid trapped over two years without a day off
Late November 2014, an email came from the blogsite Tremeritus about an Indonesian domestic worker who was not allowed to leave her employer’s house for two years. The email sender said “hope you guys can take a look at this case seriously. The poor maid is said to be always hungry and begging for food from neighbour.”
Helpfully, the email gave us at Transient Workers Count Too the address – a house in a quiet district in the Thomson area.
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Acting on a tip-off, TWC2 rescues a maid trapped over two years without a day off:
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Dignitary’s Maid Reveals Indignities of Domestic Work - Working In These Times
Source: Working In These Times
A certain romance colors our image of the house servant of yore. In fare from Downton Abbey to Hollywood's The Butler, they're depicted as spectacles of starched traditionalism, deference and obsessive manners, even as they navigate unspoken class and racial faultlines. Though household labor has evolved from its rigid historical forms, a new chapter of the period drama for the era of globalization has emerged in New York's rarefied diplomatic scene, with curious case of Sangeeta Richard, the domestic worker of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.
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http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/16062/dignitarys_maid_reveals_indignities_of_domestic_work/
A certain romance colors our image of the house servant of yore. In fare from Downton Abbey to Hollywood's The Butler, they're depicted as spectacles of starched traditionalism, deference and obsessive manners, even as they navigate unspoken class and racial faultlines. Though household labor has evolved from its rigid historical forms, a new chapter of the period drama for the era of globalization has emerged in New York's rarefied diplomatic scene, with curious case of Sangeeta Richard, the domestic worker of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.
Continue here:
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/16062/dignitarys_maid_reveals_indignities_of_domestic_work/
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