China had nearly 300 million rural migrant workers at the end of 2024. The domestic service sector, a key driver of ...

A heart wrenching incident happened in South Delhi’s posh area, Lajpat Nagar. A servant brutally killed mother of age around ...

A coalition of 12 non-governmental organizations in Malaysia has renewed a push for legal protections for domestic workers after a court sentenced a couple to jail for murdering their Indonesian maid ...

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) — The Bahamas Government says it is moving towards implementing the second phase of the comprehensive public service salary review and that public servants will see ...

More than 100,000 children were shipped from orphan homes in the UK to Canada between 1869 and 1948 with many used as cheap labour, typically as farm workers and domestic servants.

She works as a domestic servant without pay, eats leftovers, sleeps on the floor and is cut off from her family. She is eventually resold to the “owner’s” relative in London. Luckily, she manages to ...

A United Nations (UN) judge has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison for modern slavery offences after forcing a young Ugandan woman to work as a domestic servant without pay in her ...

Deepita points out, “In cities like Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bangalore, there is a noticeable influx of Bengali women working as domestic servants.” What makes the case of female domestic workers in West ...

Marissa set up Justice for Domestic Workers in 2009, which in 2017 became the VODW. Now, in a historic move – thought to be a world first – they have formed a Domestic Workers Branch inside Unite.

Foreign embassies are on notice about the treatment of servants brought in to work for diplomats, as Australia’s first anti-slavery commissioner warns he wants greater scrutiny of their visas ...

This group included: transport workers; domestic servants; professional people - doctors, teachers, lawyers and the like; those in banking and insurance; and those in the wholesale and retail trade.