Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 18
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Domestic workers are often "physically invisible" to the general public. More importantly, much as in other gendered relationships, domestic work is deliberately made invisible to public scrutiny: A "private sphere" is socially constructed, where labour relationships are supposedly beyond State or social control. This thinking is reminiscent of archaic arguments that sought to condone domestic violence against women or children as a "private matter", rather than recognizing the crimes that such acts constitute.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences