Exploited for profit, failed by governments : Indonesian migrant domestic workers trafficked to Hong Kong
- Fecha
2013
- Autores
Amnesty International, International Secretariat
- Resumen
The workers are not tied to a single employer. However, if they leave their employer, they only have 2 weeks to find another, or else they fall under irregular status, a policy which acts similar to employer bondage.
- Number of pages
146
- Institución responsable
Amnesty International
- Lugar de publicación
London
- Notas
**: The inability to find new employment in the two-week time limit leaves migrant domestic
workers with little choice but to remain in abusive and/or exploitative conditions or accept
jobs with unfavourable work conditions in order to maintain their immigration status.
In 2006, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,370 raised
concerns that the Two-Week Rule pushes “foreign domestic workers to accept employment
which may have unfair or abusive terms and conditions in order to stay in Hong Kong” ...In addition to increasing migrant domestic worker’s vulnerability to exploitative and abusive
working conditions, the Two-Week Rule also significantly impedes their ability to access
redress mechanisms in Hong Kong -p.76- Conexiones
- Palabras clave
Trafficking
- Los sectores económicos
Occupations in services - Domestic work
- Tipos de contenido
Análisis de políticas, Casos documentados de abuso, Iniciativas de apoyo, Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida, La política actual, Número de trabajadores migrantes, y Violación sistémica/estatal de derechos/libertades
- Los grupos destinatarios
Legisladores, Conciencia Pública, y ONG / grupos comunitarios / redes de solidaridad
- Relevancia geográfica
China
- Idiomas
Inglés