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Home-based workers are contributing a lot to the economy of Pakistan as they are doing a tremendous job by locally producing homemade items, such as needlework, embroidery, quilts, etc. Education brings a lasting change and enriches the skills of people ...

LAHORE: The district governments could play a very important role for the promotion of women home-based workers at grassroots levels which are from the informal sector of economy and lack some of the most basic facilities of life. This was ...

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 ...

HYDERABAD: Speakers at the All Sindh Home-based Women Workers Con­ven­­tion held here on Tuesday demanded that the Sindh government fulfil its promise of recognising more than five million homed-based women workers and give them due rights as per the Constitution ...

LAHORE: Home-based women workers have threatened to stage a sit-in outside the Punjab Assembly if the provincial government does not pass the draft HBWs bill within a month. The threat was made at a one-day national convention of the HBWs ...