{"id":860,"date":"2015-04-20T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-04-20T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:35:08","slug":"exploited-for-profit-indonesian-domestic-workers-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"&#8222;Exploited for Profit&#8220; &#8211; Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-861\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightsexposureproject.com\/indonesia-migrant-domestic-workers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-861 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/helpers1.jpg\" alt=\"helpers1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/helpers1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/helpers1-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/helpers1-199x69.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Godden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Hong Kong has 300,000 migrant domestic workers, half of whom come from Indonesia. The vast majority are young women\u00a0employed by families as caregivers to children and the elderly. Many face exploitation at the hands of unscrupulous recruitment agencies, loan companies and employers. Despite a wealth of\u00a0evidence from the UN, ILO and human rights organisations, the Government of Hong Kong refuses to acknowledge\u00a0the scale of the problem and its role in exasperating the situation. In response, Indonesian\u00a0migrant domestic workers have organised themselves to fight for their rights through forming trade unions and protest. Much of this work is done during the one statutory day-off they receive, and takes place in and around Victoria Park on Hong Kong Island. (by Robert Godden)<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-862\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightsexposureproject.com\/indonesia-migrant-domestic-workers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-862 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/helpers2.jpg\" alt=\"helpers2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/helpers2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/helpers2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/helpers2-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Godden\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightsexposureproject.com\/indonesia-migrant-domestic-workers\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.rightsexposureproject.com\/indonesia-migrant-domestic-workers<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Robert Godden\u00a0is\u00a0a photographer and human rights activist. Formerly with Amnesty International, he is\u00a0the founder of the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a class=\"\" style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightsexposureproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rights Exposure Project<\/a><\/span>\u00a0which\u00a0brings together a range of audio-visual professionals with local knowledge and international experience.\u00a0Their\u00a0region of specialization is Asia, with\u00a0thematic expertise in\u00a0migrant workers rights\u00a0&amp; trafficking for labour exploitation and forced labour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong has 300,000 migrant domestic workers, half of whom come from Indonesia. The vast majority are young women\u00a0employed by families as caregivers to children and the elderly. Many face exploitation at the hands of unscrupulous recruitment agencies, loan companies and employers. Despite a wealth of\u00a0evidence from the UN, ILO and human rights organisations, the &#8230; <a title=\"&#8222;Exploited for Profit&#8220; &#8211; Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=860\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber &#8222;Exploited for Profit&#8220; &#8211; Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}