Report on the Status of Foreign Domestic Workers in Cyprus

Abstract

This report was prepared within the framework of cooperation between the Cyprus Commissioner for Administration and the Protection of Human Rights (Ombudsman) Mrs Maria Stylianou-Lottides, acting under her competence as a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) and UCLan Cyprus. Its objectives are to highlight the specificity and complexity of the different challenges faced by foreign domestic workers and operate as a basis for consultation of all major stakeholders in an attempt to strengthen the existing institutional framework that regulates their rights, or to create an altogether new one.

Keywords: foreign domestic workers, immigration, Cyprus, human rights