In June 2010, International Labour Organisation (ILO) members will begin formal discussions on a possible new global instrument to ensure decent work for domestic workers. Anti-Slavery International, Human Rights Watch and Save the Children have initiated the following statement in order to call upon ILO members to pay special attention to the vulnerability of child domestic workers around the world, and to adopt a binding Convention that ensures special protection for children.
Concerned Malaysians are encouraged to send petition letters to the Chief Minister of Penang to stop the Penang Global City Centre project before it is too late. (See sample letter below)
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About 70 people representing the Coalition Against Health Care Privatisation turned up on Thursday, 23 November 2006 to hand over a petition to the Prime Minister, urging him to save our health care system from the onslaught of neo-liberalism and privatisation. A senior private secretary came out to receive the petition, bearing 8,000-odd signatures, and promised to hand it over to the PM.