Geneva (AP) - global at least $526000 people's demand is the domestic workers, most of them are women don't have adequate legal protection, the United Nations labor agency said on Wednesday in the first global snapshot is often invisible staff, concerned about others' families and households.
By the United Nations international labor organization study found that, all the domestic workers is 83% of women, many of them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, because they lack the knowledge of the local language and law or because they are often pay a flat a weekly or monthly fee is not based on their work many hours.
"Caring about the children, care for the elderly and disabled, perform a wide range of household chores, domestic workers is an indispensable component of the social structure, Sandra, berth laski, international Labour organization, vice director of general, told reporters in Geneva.
The agency also found that 90% of the families of workers do not include general labor protection as a mainstream economy of workers to the same degree - 30%, completely excluded from all the country's labor law.
The United Nations warned, however, the income may be a reliable minimum number, according to the 2010 data, and are likely to be tens of millions of millions of people due to higher national understate.
The report ruled out those domestic workers is 15 years old the following, are considered to be children, and in 2008 in 7.4 million, the last estimate.
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