Kalayaan (charity)

Kalayaan is a UK charity which works with and to support migrant domestic workers in the UK. On the 28th June 2008 an important step forward was made for the rights of this particularly vulnerable group of workers. In response to pressure from migrant domestic workers themselves, Kalayaan and other human rights organisations, together with the unions, the UK government committed to the continued protection of migrant domestic workers in the UK and withdrew its plans to remove the domestic worker visa and with it many of the rights of this group of workers. [http://www.kalayaan.org.uk/]

Kalayaan won the 2006 Centre for [http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=74 Social Justice Awards]
* [http://www.kalayaan.org.uk/ Kalayaan's website]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4850602.stm Dirty work] Article on BBC News
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/52760.stm Slaves want UK law change] Article on BBC News
* [http://www.picum.org/DOCUMENTATION/Regularisation/REGULARISATION%20OF%20MIGRANT%20DOMESTIC%20WORKERS.pdf Devil is in the detail] Paper by Dr Bridget Anderson, Dept Sociology, University of Warwick
* [http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/working_in_the_uk/en/homepage/schemes_and_programmes/domestics_workers.html Working in the UK] dead link|date=January 2008 |url=http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/working_in_the_uk/en/homepage/schemes_and_programmes/domestics_workers.html
* [http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/summary/summary.php?id=rdsolr0406 Employers’ Use of Migrant Labour] a study commissioned by the Home Office