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Article: Need stressed to safeguard rights of home-based workers.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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Karachi, January 19 (PPI): Speakers at a workshop called for providing better access to markets for home-based workers (HBWs) to end role of middlemen and asked government to sign International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention-177 that deals with them. The workshop on Two-day Legal Awareness for Rights of Home-Based Workers was organized Friday by Aurat Foundation under its program Home Net Pakistan. Fareed Awan, eminent trade union activist, Shireen Khan and Nuzhat Shireen of AF and others stressed HBWs, including 12 million women, be given due recognition and their right to form union be recognized so that they could decide the minimum wages for the work and ...