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, by ALI Kalbe
ISLAMABAD: The representatives of international bodies on Wednesday decried that Pakistan is failing to improve human rights and workers conditions despite availing the benefits of GSP+ facility provide by the European Union (EU).
Speaking at a national multi-stakeholder consultation on GSP+ (…)
LAHORE:Workers have demanded better wages, an improved labour inspection mechanism to protect their lives from accidents and quality health facilities.
It was demanded in a declaration issued after a National Worker Convention organised by Labour Education Foundation in collaboration with (…)
, by BALOCH Shah Meer
Legislation passed following murder of Qandeel Baloch in 2016 proves ineffective as authorities fail to pursue cases
The killer was unrepentant.
“I killed my sister because she brought [a] bad name for the family,” he told neighbours in the Kachi district of Balochistan, Pakistan.
“I (…)
, by TOPPA Sabrina
Campaigners will march on International Women’s Day to protest against harassment, child marriage and ‘honour killings’
During Jalwat Ali’s school days in Lahore, there were limited spaces to gather with other women, never mind flood the streets with punchy placards.
Public spaces often (…)
Aug 9: The Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act 2010 was passed eight years ago, but hardly any efforts can be seen on the ground for its implementation, including raising awareness among working women, especially those associated with the education sector.
In most cases (…)
, by Labour Education Foundation (Pakistan)
Women workers give Nov 20 deadline to government
Threaten with dharna outside Punjab Assembly if law not passed
Progressive Home Based Workers Federation comes into being, takes oath
LAHORE: Women Home Based Workers (HBWs) from all over Punjab have warned the government of a dharna (…)
, by MUSTAFA Zubeida
ON April 11, the Arts Council auditorium in Karachi resounded with festivity. The first National Convention on Home Based Workers (HBW) was being held there. The disturbance caused by crying babies and chattering women did not detract from the gravity of the serious stuff that was under (…)
, by MAQSOOD Riffat, SHAD Azra, Women Workers Help Line
End economic exploitation of women, hundreds joined the rally and women Mela in Lahore, Women Workers Help Line mobilized the largest gathering of working class women in Lahore
Hundreds of working class women participated in a rally on the eve of international day of women in Lahore. The rally (…)
, by HBWWF, KHAN Zehra
Rally on women’s day by HBWWF and LHW in Karachi
Thousands of women of working class march with red flags through the streets of busy Sadder area Karachi to press for their demand to accept them as worker and cover under social security schemes and to regularize the lady health workers. The (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
LAHORE: “Pakistan’s informal sector has grown about 20 percent in the last one decade, giving rise to exploitation of poor workers, especially home-based women workers by the business class. The informal sector workers are invisible, highly vulnerable and at the mercy of middlemen, contractors (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
Why home-based women workers need social protection on urgent basis?
Women’s labor rights particularly in the informal sector have long been neglected and almost remained invisible having no access to labor rights or other social security schemes while private investors are only interested in (…)
, by HBWWF
Annual Convention
Of
Home Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF), Pakistan
(11 April 2011, Art Council Auditorium, Karachi)
It is historic event that the Home based Women Workers Federation, Pakistan (HBWWF), registered is going to organize it 1st Annual Convention on 11 April 2011 at (…)
LAHORE: Over 1500 women marched on the Mall, from Nasir Bagh to Punjab Assembly under the banner of Women Workers Help Line (WWHL) to celebrate the International Women Day on Monday, March 08, 2010. Despite prevailing fear among Lahorites after early morning suicidal attack on FIA building in (…)
, by AMP, LPP, Women Workers Help Line
Labour Party Pakistan and its sympathizing organizations are organizing various activities at the occasion of the International Women Day on 8 March 2010. Women Workers Help Line (WWHL), National Trade Union Federation, Anjaman Mozareen Punjab and Labour Education Foundation have announced the (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
Sexual harassment at work place is a most common crime committed against women in Pakistan. Social norms and patriarchic environment encourages men to commit such crimes and compels women victims to be silent and helplessly face their perpetrators. But not all women face this social oppression (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
In connection with May Day, over 500 women belonging to informal sector took out a rally in Lahore, Friday, led by representatives of Women Workers Help Line. The rally started from Lahore Press club and reached at GPO Chowk after marching on the major city roads, including Abbot Road, Nisbat (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
LAHORE,
Tribal-feudal culture and lack of education are obstacles in grant of land ownership rights to women.
This was a consensus in the provincial consultation on ‘Women’s right to land’ arranged by the Women Workers Helpline and ActionAid Pakistan here on Monday.
Women MPAs, trade (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra, Women Workers Help Line
LAHORE: Hundreds of women workers from different parts of Lahore suburbs took part in a rally, organized by Women Workers Help Line (WWHL), on the occasion of Labor Day on Monday, 1rst of May 2006. The rally led by WWHL leaders, started from Press Club Lahore and after passing through MaCload (…)
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