Making The Invisible Visible: The First Step

Image taken from The International Slavery Museum page

During this unit, we have learned about all the human rights each of us has since the moment we are born. We realized how lucky we were to be able to have all these rights. However, we also saw that in many cases, these rights are violated or not applied to everyone in the world. It is a sad thing to learn about, but we need it to know more about what our world is dealing with. Instead of focusing on the whole world though, we are only looking at the issues with rights in Malaysia. Within our class, we went more in depth for Domestic workers, and the rights they should have.

Domestic workers pay an essential role in our daily lives. Without them our house would be dirty, we wouldn't have food when we got home, and we would have dirty clothes. Even though domestic workers are so important, some of us do not consider them as worthy enough to treat right. In many cases, domestic workers are abused, paid a small amount of money, and taken their liberty away. Domestic workers really can't do anything about this, as they need to work to survive and feed their families in their hometowns. Even though this doesn't directly affect us, we need to realize that each of us are equal people with equal rights, and it would be horrible to ignore the fact that people just like us aren't being treated the way they should. As one of our human rights states, each of us are responsible for one another, so that all of us can be happy as a whole.

Now what we are trying to come up with, is a way of solving, or lowering the cases of abuse to domestic workers, so they rights stop being taken away. In order to solve the problem, we first need to know all the sides of this issue, which is what we are doing right now in humanities. We have been researching all around tons of websites and articles, to know what other people feel and have done about this problem. We have been surprised many times on how many people are hurting and taking advantage of domestic workers. Some people need to understand that domestic workers are suffering every time you hurt them. They are all like us. Even though my family and I have domestic workers at home, we realize they have rights to have free time and feel comfortable around us, which is what everyone else should do.

I feel like doing this unit is helping me to be more responsible because I can care more about other people, driving me to help everyone around me. We know that all of us can't do a massive change to this problem, but we can help a little, and trigger other people to help. Maybe in the future, abuse to domestic workers will end!