DOMESTIC WORKERS: Winning Recognition and Protection, Sources (2013)

The primary sources for this publication were first-person interviews conducted by the Solidarity Center in 2012. Additional sources are noted below.

• Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic, by David Howard.
• “Dominican Republic,” Library of Congress Country Studies.
• U.S. State Department, “2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices—Dominican Republic.”
• “Human Development Report, 2011: Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All,” United Nations Development Program.
• “Statistical Update on Employment in the Informal Economy,” International Labor Organization, June 2012.
• “Country Gender Profile: Dominican Republic,” Japan International Cooperation Agency, March 2011.
• “An Overview of Dominican Labor Law,” Guzmán Ariza, Attorneys at Law.
• “Act No. 16-92 of 29 May 1992 Promulgating the Labour Code [Excerpts],” Popline, by K4Health.
• “2012 Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights—Dominican Republic,” United National High Commissioner for Refugees.
• “Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights: Dominican Republic—2012,” International Trade Union Confederation.
• “Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011: Dominican Republic,” U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Retirement and Disability Policy.
• “Domestic Workers Across the World: Global and Regional Statistics and the Extent of Legal Protection,” January 9, 2013, International Labor Organization.
• “Help Protect Domestic Workers,” Human Rights Watch.
• “Dominican Republic: 300,000 Domestic Workers to Gain Labour Law Protection,” June 30, 2012, International Trade Union Confederation.
• “Domestic Workers,” Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing.
• “C189-Domestic Workers Convention, 2011,” International Labor Organization.
• “A Domestic’s Work is Never Done,” January 10, 2013, Equal Times.
• “Top Official Announces Push for Domestics’ Labor Rights,” June 28, 2012, Dominican Today.
• Testimony of Neha Misra, senior specialist, Migration and Human Trafficking, Solidarity Center, Before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, U.S. House of Representatives, November 28, 2012.
• “Love Thy Neighbour? Not When It Comes to the Dominican Republic and Haiti,” October 3, 2011, The Guardian.