Workers in the shadows
Subtitle: abuse and exploitation of child domestic workers in Indonesia
By: [Bede Sheppard]
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9781564324306
Subjects: Child abuse; Household employees; Children's rights; Law and legislation; Child labor; Abuse of
Other titles: Abuse and exploitation of child domestic workers in Indonesia; Indonesia, workers in the shadows
Description: Methodology -- The abuse and exploitation of child domestic workers : a continuing situation -- Eight enduring myths -- Continuing failure of the Indonesian government to protect and prevent exploitation of child domestic workers -- National and local governments' international legal obligations -- Recommendations.

This report documents how hundreds of thousands of girls in Indonesia, some as young as 11, are employed as domestic workers in other people's households, performing tasks such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and child care. Most girls interviewed for the report worked 14 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, with no day off. Almost all are grossly underpaid, and some get no salary at all. In the worst cases, girls reported being physically, psychologically, and sexually abused.
Notes: "This report was written by Bede Sheppard..."--Acknowledgements.

"February 2009"--P. following t.p.

"This report is a follow up to 'Always on Call,' a report released by Human Rights Watch in 2005"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available via the Internet on the Human Rights Watch web site.