The sun had not yet risen in Hong Kong when Sally*, a domestic worker, was woken and told she needed to leave immediately. Sally, 39, from Manilla in the Philippines, is one of the 390,000 domestic workers – mainly from poorer Asian countries – who keep Hong Kong functioning. One in every 20 employees in Hong Kong is a migrant worker, and most of these are women of child bearing age. If they stay in Hong Kong illegally, they won’t be able to access healthcare or register the births of their children, who become stateless. 'That one day is all you have': how Hong Kong's domestic workers seized Sunday Read more“He wanted to abort [the baby].

Source: The Guardian July 22, 2019 06:00 UTC