[RSS] No place to call home: plight of Hong Kong’s pregnant domestic helpers

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[RSS] No place to call home: plight of Hong Kong’s pregnant domestic helpers

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At five months pregnant, domestic helper Daisy* was kicked out of her Hong Kong employer’s home one night without warning. Distraught and alone, the 32-year-old called home in Mindanao, the Philippines, crying over what had happened to her. “It was in the middle of the night. I felt so scared as I was pregnant and I had no family or friends here I could turn to,” Daisy recalled. She had arrived in Hong Kong in 2023 to work for a local couple who had a seven-year-old son but fell pregnant last...

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