ISLAMABAD: On the direction of the Ministry of Human Rights, the Kohsar police have registered a case against a citizen on the charge of torturing her 11-year-old maid. The police said the girl was working in a house at F-7/4. ...
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LAHORE: Minister for Women Development Hameeda Waheedud Din said on Thursday that a programme for training 4,000 women had been launched under the Punjab Skill Development Fund. She said 10,000 domestic workers would be imparted training under the Domestic Workers ...
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By: Ali Usman LAHORE: There is a growing trend of engaging domestic help, particularly in cities. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, 74 per cent of the labour work force is engaged in the informal sector, of which domestic ...
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THE death of another female domestic servant prompted me to write these lines. It all started in the 1990s when I returned to Pakistan after an absence of more than two decades and we needed urgent help of female domestic ...
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Most middle and upper class families employ maids in Pakistan. Although these women are working, the environment they work in does not really do much to empower them. Hired below minimum wage with no respect for labour laws, it is ...
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