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When international protections are designed to exclude you

The treaty my government signed to protect migrant workers explicitly excludes domestic workers like me, and I just found out this exclusion was negotiated specifically to preserve my host country's exploitative labor practices.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're realizing that global agreements often codify rather than challenge existing hierarchies of whose rights matter.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with International law and its limits?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.