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The head of a United Nations expert committee on migrants’ rights today welcomed the recent adoption by the International Labour Organization (ILO) of an international convention designed to protect the rights of domestic workers, millions of whom are migrants.
“Migrant domestic workers are at heightened risk of certain forms of exploitation and abuse, due to the vulnerability, isolation and dependence in which most find themselves,” said Abdelhamid El Jamri, head of UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. (...)

The article:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38794&Cr=ilo&Cr1=

More about:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38776&Cr=slavery&Cr1=

http://business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1006808

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2011/June/protect-human-rights-and-workers-rights-to-end-labour-exploitation.html

http://www.inail.it/Portale/appmanager/portale/desktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PAGE_SALASTAMPA&nextPage=Prodotti/News/2011/Prevenzione_e_rischi/info-1407504402.jsp

The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families:
http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=104&language_id=1&erc_doc_id=558&category_id=32&category_type=3&group=    

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Sull'argomento:

http://terresottovento.altervista.org/?p=2131#more-2131

http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3567

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Testimonianze dal Perù:

http://d.repubblica.it/dmemory/2011/10/01/attualita/attualita/137col761137.html

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Testimonianze dalla Malaysia:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/10/31/cambodia-malaysia-domestic-workers-face-abuse

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/10/31/they-deceived-us-every-step