LatestTHE Philippines is one of the biggest suppliers of domestic workers around the world, along with Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India. The deployment of domestic workers abroad has effectively commoditized comfort and care for millions of households around the world. The biggest clientele of female domestic workers are the Arab states, with some 36 percent or 2.3 million deployed in the Middle Eastern countries. In Hong Kong, the price of such maternal comfort is HK$4,600 (or about P31,000) – the monthly minimum wage for domestic workers. Female domestic workers are thus more prone to physical, sexual and mental abuse, trafficking, prostitution and exploitation.

Source: Sunday Times October 24, 2017 05:48 UTC