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Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from New Delhi on the tens of millions of unprotected, underpaid, and largely invisible domestics, many of whom were trafficked into the work as children. He also talks with Sister Jeanne Devos, a Belgian nun who founded the National Domestic Workers Movement to represent them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Millions of young Indian women make up a vast labor force of domestic workers that is largely unrecognized by their government. At a very young age, they leave \u2013 or are taken \u2013 from poor communities for work, only to receive less than the minimum wage. “It’s one of the biggest incomes for most people.” says Sister Jeanne Devos, a Belgian nun and founder of the National Domestic Workers Movement. “[They] go to the villages, get them poor children, sell them back in the city.” More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":22909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[4728,17762,3045,7292,8705],"class_list":["post-22857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-calcutta","tag-jeanne-devos","tag-labor","tag-new-delhi","tag-nun","topics-culture-and-society","topics-humanitarian","topics-international"],"yoast_head":"\nApril 25, 2014 ~ India's Domestic Workers | April 25, 2014 | Religion & Ethics 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