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SDG 5: Gender Equality 

This goal promotes women and girls worldwide to equal rights, equal opportunities, and protection. Domestic workers, like Chellam, are generally women who also suffer from gender-based discrimination in addition to class-based prejudice. Many women domestic workers face exceptional vulnerability to abuse and exploitation; hence, their economic status and lack of protection underpin the need for gender-specific policies to be responsive to certain challenges and able to assure considerations of fair treatment.

SDG 8:Decent Work and Economic Growth

SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth established good working conditions and called for all appropriate policies that protect workers in all sectors of employment, including the informal types of employment, such as domestic work. Unfortunately, such experiences by Chellam bring to light how domestic work has remained undervalued and deprotected, hence exposing workers to poor treatment, low wages, and no dignity at work. SDG 8 insists on even the unorganized workers being accorded safety, respect, and equity at their workplaces irrespective of economic and work environmental surroundings.

SDG 10: Reduced Inequality

SDG 10 deals with the reduction in inequality within and among countries in various aspects, including social and economic inequalities that affect the condition of people like Chellam, whose economic background has created unequal opportunities with regard to equal treatment. Therefore, the SDG aims at abating inequality for social inclusion and just treatment of citizens without regard to economic class. This goal specifically focuses on the need of challenging class bias and encourages increased access to legal protection, decent earnings, and social assistance for those holding lowpaying jobs.

SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

This objective, in essence, fosters the creation of effective, transparent institutions that ensure justice, thereby guaranteeing rights for all, including domestic workers. The case of Chellam best epitomizes how, in the absence of functional labor laws, workers are really susceptible to abuse and exploitation, with limited avenues to seek justice. SDG 16 calls for improved rule of law and social accountability to guarantee domestic workers their rights to fair treatment, protection under the law.