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Behind Closed Doors: Protecting and Promoting the Human Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers in an Irregular Situation

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Behind Closed Doors: Protecting and Promoting the Human Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers in an Irregular Situation

This publication sheds light on the often hidden experience of irregular migrant domestic workers, and challenges Governments to take appropriate protective measures. It emphasizes that migrant domestic workers, regardless of whether they are male or female, children or adults, in a regular or irregular situation, are entitled to all fundamental human rights, without discrimination of any kind. 

Date of Publication
Type of Resource
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals
Source / Publisher
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Language
English
Geographic Scope
Global
Workstream Output
No
Regional Review Process
No
GCM Objectives
6
7
Cross Cutting Theme
Gender-responsive
Human rights
People-centred
Rule of law and due process
Keywords
Human rights
Irregular migration
Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
Tags
irregular migration
human rights
Status
Published

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