Hong Kong: The fight for women’s rights At this year’s rally women from Africa, China (mainland), Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka took part alongside activists (women and men) from Hong Kong. Several groups had speakers including the Refugee Union, involved in a month-long occupation struggle against discrimination and corruption in government-run services. The League of Social Democrats (LSD), Slutwalk Hong Kong, Women’s Coalition HK (an LGBT organisation) also addressed the event. In 2014, the most prominent struggle of women and of workers in Hong Kong is the ongoing campaign of migrant domestic workers against slave-like employment laws. Successive mass protests have taken place this year over the case of Indonesian domestic worker Erwiana, violently abused by her employer for seven months, which became an international issue. As a result, Hong Kong is now known as a city of “modern slavery.” Around 330,000 domestic workers mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia, but also in smaller numbers from Thailand, Nepal and Myanmar, live and work under discriminatory laws. They work extremely long hours with almost non-existent legal protection against economic blackmail by ruthless recruitment agencies or against physical abuse in the home. Continued: chinaworker.info/en/2014/03/17/6405/
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:20:00 +0000
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