Report highlighting plight of agriculture workers in Sindh launched
July 17, 2021
Labour and rights activists on Friday demanded of the Sindh government to implement laws pertaining to the rights of agriculture workers, including Sindh Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 2015 and the Sindh Tenancy Act 1950.
Addressing the launch ceremony of ‘The State of Peasants’ Rights in Sindh 2020 report, prepared by the Hari Welfare Association (HWA), at the Karachi Press Club, the speakers expressed their concerns over the plight of agriculture workers, who were facing social and economic exclusion, expulsion from the agriculture fields where they worked and the non-payment of their dues by influential landlords.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sacked from his job at a Pakistani garment factory in the early days of the pandemic, Abdul Wasid was rehired three months later - for lower pay and longer hours. He now has to borrow money to make ends meet.
Wasid’s experience reflects a rollback on labour rights in the global garment industry due to COVID-19 as fashion brands pile pressure on their suppliers and, in turn, on factory workers, according to two new reports by labour advocacy groups.
“I was desperate because I hadn’t earned anything for months after being fired and agreed to everything they said. Now I’m depending on small loans to survive,” Wasid, 35, said by video call from his Karachi home after finishing a 10-hour shift.
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Pakistan: Bonded Labour Traps Thousands, Despite Law In Place Against Modern Slavery
The bonded labour system makes poor peasants work for free to pay their debts. There is an act against the system however government has failed to implement it.
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Despite the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 2015, thousands in Pakistan were trapped in the under bonded labour system revealed research carried out by Hari Welfare Association (HWA). As per one of the researchers, Khaskheli, the Pakistani Government has failed to implement the Act releasing individuals and families trapped in bonded labour by influential landlords. Under the bonded labour system labourers are completely or partially forced to work without pay to pay off their debts.