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Migrant workers call for legal protections in Women s Day rally 03/08/2021 06:38 PM CNA photo March 8, 2021 Taipei, March 8 (CNA) Migrant domestic workers in Taiwan, supported by representatives from labor rights groups, rallied in front of the Legislative Yuan on Women s Day to ask for legal protections of their rights and welfare. About 100 demonstrators, mostly caregivers from the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, chanted slogans asking for support for migrant domestic workers, who are generally women. They also held placards with their appeals written in different languages. Marisa Garcia, a Filipino domestic worker who was hit by a motorcycle in June 2020, joined the rally in a wheelchair.

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