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--- On Sun, 3/9/14, Debra Rosen, Walk Free <debra@walkfree.org> wrote:
> From: Debra Rosen, Walk Free <debra@walkfree.org>
> Subject: Hong Kong's dirty, bloody secret
> Date: Sunday, March 9, 2014, 5:14 PM
>
>
>
> Campaign
> update: Just days ago, the Hong Kong
> Labour Ministry BLOCKED OUR EMAILS. We are now planning to
> deliver all signatures in person. Will you add your
> name?
> Call
> on the Hong Kong Labour Ministry to protect workers from
> domestic slavery.
>
> Erwiana's
> story of torture
> and abuse in one of the world's glitziest cities is
> currently rallying thousands
> in Asia.1
> After 8 months of being forced to work with no pay in a
> Hong Kong
> family's home, Erwiana's beaten and broken body
> was dumped at the city's
> largest airport with a one way ticket back home and a
> frightening threat – tell
> anyone about what happened and your parents will be
> killed.
> Workers such as Erwiana are trapped in a
> vicious economic cycle which traps many others in modern
> slavery in Hong Kong.
> Dishonest placement
> agencies illegally lock the world's most vulnerable
> workers in debt, often charging them 7 or 8 months'
> wages to be placed, making
> repayment next to impossible. The good news is that Hong
> Kong law only allows agencies
> to charge up to 10% of a worker's monthly
> wage2. Unfortunately, the city's
> government does not regulate these agencies, which
> allows this extortion to continue.
> The result? Many domestic workers –
> both penniless and powerless – become victims of
> increasingly harsh treatment at the hand of their employers
> and have nowhere to go for help.
> Call
> on the Hong Kong Government to put in place
> procedures to regulate and monitor placement agencies right
> now.
> Hong Kong has over 300,000 migrant domestic
> workers. In November 2013, Amnesty International
> documented dozens of Indonesian women trapped there in
> conditions amounting to
> modern slavery. These women had been locked
> inside the homes of strangers, their passports taken away,
> often beaten and
> sexually abused, and with no recourse to
> justice2.
> We can't go back in time
> and change what happened to Erwiana –
> but we do have an unprecedented opportunity
> to change the destiny of thousands of domestic employees now
> working in Hong
> Kong. The international press, demonstrators and
> even some employers are
> already putting pressure on the Hong Kong government to
> effectively regulate
> and monitor placement agencies. If we generate a groundswell
> of
> support, we
> can help ensure that young women like Erwiana are protected
> from modern
> slavery.
> Erwiana's
> story has put Hong Kong in the spotlight
> for the lack of enforcement of its laws. Take action to
> request the government protect migrant workers from bonded
> labour!
> Erwiana's
> employer only released her when she was beaten so
> badly, she was unable to continue working. Luckily, a fellow
> passenger was able
> to see that Erwiana was injured and offered her
> assistance.
> If we stand together to demand that the Hong Kong
> government implement
> its laws, we can help protect women and girls from being
> trapped in domestic
> forced labour and we can help spark real change.
> Forward this email to your friends and family and ask them
> to add
> their voice to yours. Let's make this a truly
> unprecedented call to action to
> protect the women and girls who work behind closed doors in
> the homes of Hong
> Kong.
> In solidarity,
>
> Debra, Fiona, Nithin, Mika, Olly, Amy, Sarah and the Walk
> Free team
>
> P.S. On
> Twitter? Follow
> us
> 1 http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/20/world/asia/hong-kong-maid-indonesia
> 2 http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA17/041/2013/en
> Walk Free is a
> movement of people everywhere, fighting to end one of the
> world's greatest evils: Modern slavery.
>
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