There are Goan Domestic Workers Too in NY. (vjp) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “Women’s Work”
Ending the Exploitation and Abuse of Domestic Workers Film screening and panel discussion in conjunction with the ACLU and the 54th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Join us to commemorate International Women's Day and Women's History Month. Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:00-7:30pm United Nations Church Center, 10th Floor 777 United Nations Plaza (44th St. and First Avenue) The event will begin with a screening of a short documentary film about the exploitation and labor trafficking of South Asian women as domestic workers in the United States: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, a film by Brown Girls Productions Followed by a panel discussion with domestic workers and advocates engaged in local, national, and international movements to protect the human rights of domestic workers and re-value their labor: NAHAR ALAM, Executive Director of Andolan: Organizing South Asian Workers RAZIAH BEGUM, Domestic Worker and Member of Andolan PRISCILLA GONZALEZ, Director of Domestic Workers United (DWU) ALLISON JULIEN, Domestic Worker and Member of DWU Steering Committee LINDA OALICAN, Domestic Worker, Community Organizer for DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association and Representative for the National Domestic Workers Alliance IVY SURIYOPAS, Staff Attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Moderated by ARACELI MARTINEZ-OLGUIN, Staff Attorney at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project The filmmakers, PRACHETA SHARMA and JESSICA HOPPER, will introduce the film and be available for questions. For more information, please visit: http://www.aclu.org/womens-rights/un-commission-status-women-2010