child labour

Child labour, taboos around psychological treatment, inept courts and policing - all transform men into monsters

UN Committee calls on Nepal to remove existing obstacles hindering forced-labour victims from filing complaints

The type of abuse children suffer at the hands of their hirers is simply baffling

Research evidence shows that an important factor contributing to child labour is the health status of parents

In a written order, the court has also asked to formulate special courts and protection committees

Children who live below the poverty line or are orphans are usually forced into child labour

Inspectors ordered to take stern action against employers

Punjab Domestic Workers Act 2018 enshrines hefty fines for employers breaching workers’ rights

Project loses priority; over a thousand children may be forced back to work

Recommends paying senior citizens 50% of their salary

Sources say letter issued to CPO, DPOs for filing daily report to IG office

Pervez Khattak chairs final cabinet meeting and clears new labour, child labour policy 

Issues of child labour, child marriage discussed at event organised by Child Rights Movement - Sindh

Business owners have been asked not to involve children in labour

Collectively we must fight the employment of children as domestic workers

Convicts got bail before arrest from IHC

DC says officials should ensure implementation of recommended wages

An additional sessions judge, his wife were charged for confining and injuring minor housemaid

The scale of the problem is unknown as there is no data gathering beyond the anecdotal

Many of the problems exist in informal surgical instrument workshops

There is an urgent need to develop a system for training skilled labour, creating more jobs

Rights activists lament non-utilisation of budget allocated for children's rights

Says Rs10.7 million have been provided for education of underprivileged children

Factories also sealed for excessive pollution

Faltering progress imperils efforts to end child labour by 2025

Say commission should be set up through act of assembly

CRM urged govt to devise a plan of action  

As many as 82 cases of brutal torture of child domestic helpers have been reported in Lahore since January 2014

Unless coherent reforms are initiated, eradication of child labour will remain an elusive dream

Activists demand govt take meaningful steps to abolish the practice

According to 2012 report, over 12.5 million children in Pakistan are involved in child labour

Movement strongly urges govt to take immediate steps against child labour 

Legal experts say laws are being violated openly in the heart of city

Police team from Kandhkot to reach Karachi today to arrest rape survivor’s employers

Due to severe poverty, K-P has highest number of child labour cases

A meeting on domestic child labour was organised by Idara-e-Taleem-o-Agahi (ITA) and ASER Pakistan

Muhammad Rizwan Shaikh got bail while his wife was shown as absconder

Labour minister says all the departments concerned should work together to curb child labour

Provincial Minister for Labour and Human Resource says deserving children will be sent to schools

UK Secretary of State for International Development Priti Patel lauds the efforts of the Punjab government

Children less than 17 years of age will be barred from working in private sector

Pakistan has always been unkind to its most vulnerable citizens

Around 30 cases were reported in 2016 alone

The court also issued warning to the parents against bounded child labour

A total of seven public projects functioning to fight the monster

Hiring child labour is an old-time practice in the country, numbering in the millions

Also includes punishment for slavery, using children for prostitution or pornography

Court not to accept compromise in Tayyaba torture case: CJP

In an ideal situation, Federal Government should include child domestic labour in the schedule of banned occupations

Will either draft a new bill or amend existing legislation