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Domestic Workers to Hold Vigils at Capital Hill on Friday
30 Jan 2025 06:31 GMT
Domestic workers in Malawi are preparing for … they are being denied their human rights as enshrined in the Constitution …
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SC calls for law to secure domestic workers’ rights
30 Jan 2025 06:23 GMT
… protection for millions of domestic workers across the country, while … for this harassment and abuse, which seems to be … and torture of a domestic worker. Though the bench found … and protection of domestic workers. Indeed, domestic workers in India remain …
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SC asks government to initiate process for statutory protection for domestic workers
30 Jan 2025 04:29 GMT
The Supreme Court directs the Union government to form an expert committee for drafting a law to protect househelps, citing rampant abuse and a lack of legal safeguards. Past attempts to legislate these protections have failed over the last 66 years.
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SC asks Centre to setup panel to safeguard domestic workers’ rights
29 Jan 2025 23:02 GMT
… a safeguard to domestic workers observing their exploitation … to millions of vulnerable domestic workers across the country.
… this harassment and rampant abuse, which seems to … protection of domestic workers,” the court said. Indeed, domestic workers in …
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NO RETREAT NO SURRENDER: Domestic workers to hold vigils at Capital Hill on Friday
29 Jan 2025 21:12 GMT
Domestic workers in Malawi are gearing up … they are being denied their human rights as enshrined in the Constitution …
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Lack of a protective law exposes domestic workers to abuse, torture: SC
29 Jan 2025 17:06 GMT
… abuse an impoverished tribal woman from Chhattisgarh suffered as a domestic worker … Are domestic workers legally protected … domestic workers, from The Domestic Workers (Conditions of Employment) Bill of 1959 to The Domestic Workers … to abuse.
“Domestic workers …
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'Legal vacuum': SC asks Centre to setup panel to safeguard domestic workers' rights
29 Jan 2025 12:34 GMT
… of domestic workers," the court said.
Indeed, domestic workers in … and abuse," it said.
In its opinion, domestic workers … the vulnerability of domestic workers but also strove … protecting their interests, domestic workers were excluded from existing …
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Supreme Court Asks Union To Consider Bringing Law To Protect Domestic Workers' Rights
29 Jan 2025 10:57 GMT
… of a female domestic worker.
The judgment authored … vulnerable to exploitation and abuse." Most of … domestic workers is the legal vacuum. "Indeed, domestic workers … for domestic workers. The Kerala Government introduced the Kerala Domestic Workers …
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Domestic worker abuse: 13-yr-old Kalpana smiles again, set to return home after surgery
28 Jan 2025 21:36 GMT
After three months and ten days undergoing treatment and plastic surgery, 13-year-old Kalpana smiles again.
She had endured severe torture for years while she was a domestic worker for residents of a house in Bashundhara Residential Area.
When she was …
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67-year-old man sentenced to 19.5 years in prison for assaulting domestic worker while the family was overseas
28 Jan 2025 15:29 GMT
… : A chilling case of abuse has emerged from a domestic … for assaulting his daughter’s domestic worker while the family was … with the man, the domestic worker was invited by him to … reminder of the vulnerability of domestic workers and the need for greater …