Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific As the Covid-19 pandemic slowly abates, it is time for countries in Asia and the Pacific to provide better social protection for domestic workers and fully recognise and regulate their work as equal to any other. According to an International Labour Organization (ILO) publication launched on Thursday, “Making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers,” more than two thirds of domestic workers in the Asia-Pacific are not covered by even one social security benefit. Three in five domestic workers in this reg…

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