 In countries like Jordan, migrant domestic workers are barred from forming unions and employers typically confiscate their passports, denying them the ability to change jobs or escape abusive employers. But since 2014, the Jordan Domestic Workers Network has been educating migrant domestic workers about their rights, offering legal clinics and joining with the International Domestic Workers Federation. Suryanti (right), one of the network's founding members, says she has helped many fellow Indonesian migrant domestic workers take part in network activities, a task she undertook “because we have the same problems.” Read more at the Solidarity Center.
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