Roundtable draws up next steps for FDW rights
One of the most significant efforts to explore how foreign domestic workers’ (FDWs) rights can be respected under the law took place on Saturday. Nearly 100 non-profit and NGO chairs and leaders, general consuls and their representatives, lawmakers and professors, met at the University of Hong Kong as part of a Roundtable on Domestic Workers. […]
(SCMP) Protesters demand Regina Ip apologise for comments about Filipino maids
Open Door joined several Hong Kong protest groups to demand an apology from Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, after she cited complaints from expats about Filipino domestic workers seducing their husbands. Doris Lee, Open Door’s chairwoman, said her comments promoted hatred against maids and she must apologise. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1774282/protesters-demand-regina-ip-apologise-comments-about
Selma – a movie with a message for Hong Kong?
Selma is a movie about US civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, at the height of struggle for equal rights for African-Americans, in the 1960s. In Hong Kong, we seem to have less racial conflicts, yet there are deep divisions and inequalities among groups in society – and migrant domestic workers are one example […]
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