"Strike!Dance!Rise with J4DW until Violence Stops against Women and Children"
One Billion Rising-UK!
Who among you here have carers, babysitters,
housekeepers, domestic workers who serve
your meals and help you get prepared for work,
take care of your children with
all their hearts, with all
their time and
with all their love, making it
sure that they are safe..that these children of yours will be able to give you, dads and mums a big hug and kiss after a long
day of tiring work? Who among you here are being served on the table by these
lovely aged hands who do wish to have been serving her husband, her children, grandchildren but
all for a wish? Who among you here have suffered for longing a family, missing parents
and children for years in exchange of a small amount of penny? These are just
few of the many struggles a vulnerable domestic worker is facing at the moment.
On this very day of the One Billion Rising, where one
billion women and men rise up to end
violence against women
around the globe, we ,
the Justice for Domestic Workers in the
UK rises up for our fellow domestic workers who suffered and
are still in the combat to end the
abuse. We rise up for our sisters who are still caged secretly like dogs,
locked up and raped, discriminated by unlawful eyes, ignored and degraded for being a domestic worker.
They say we are unskilled, we believe we are not. We are just being
unrecognised by the society because we are hidden and tied up by most of our
employers. We rise for them being beaten by their employers. We are not your
stress basin! We are human beings like you. Every single slap of your hand,
punches and kicks gave us pain and brought us scar. Don’t hit us with iron, it
burn our skin. We are human beings like you!
On the 06th of April, 2012 The British government
removed the only protection that shelters the migrant domestic workers here in
the UK. The discriminatory and unfair removal of the Overseas Domestic WorkersVisa doesn't give the vulnerable workers to change employer, renew visas and access
the right as workers and so making them more vulnerable to exploitation. Given
a short 6 months of stay in the UK IS
TREATING A DOMESTIC WORKER LIKE A HUMAN
LUGGAGE. The law driven them to be illegal and criminalising them
instead of respecting them as workers. Several cases of abuse are recorded and
many more are hidden in silence with fear.
J4DW March for the Alternative in protest to the removal of Domestic workers rights, October 20, 2012.
J4DW in ONE BILLION RISING GLOBAL CAMPAIGN
to end violence against women and children
Let's Dance, Strike and Rise! One Billion Rising
to end violence against women and children