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Taiwan: handicapped VS. foreign maids

Monday, November 27th, 2006 @ 00:36 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: Taiwan (ROC)
Topics:: Labor

A report at interlocals.net by torrent on the recent debate between handicapped alliance and foreign maids on granting the migrant domestic workers basic labour rights in Taiwan.

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November 27th, 2006 at 7:32 am
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[...] The second project is equally exciting. Interlocals is somewhere between indymedia.org and Global Voices. It might be considered a more grassroots and activist version of Global Voices, albeit smaller in scope. (To be fair, I discovered Interlocals via a Global Voices post.) As they put it in their mission statement: http://www.interlocals.net is a website for the non-english speaking world to communicate with each other on their social, cultural, and political issues through the collective efforts of a group of media activists, in translating local news and debates into an international context and in entering a dialogue with each other concerning the cultural, socio-economic and political background of their own locality. [...]

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