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Multiple jurisdictions in Karachi responsible for urban flooding: HRCP Anti-poor bias runs through urban planning, policymaking SAMAA | Press Release - Posted: Dec 20, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Press Release Posted: Dec 20, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago
Men use a wooden makeshift boat at a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains triggered floods in Pakistan s port city of Karachi on August 28, 2020. (AFP)
Urban flooding in Karachi is the result of a lack of a central authority in the city, a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said Sunday.
A fact-finding report âpoints to the cityâs peculiar political geography where various jurisdictionsâlocal, provincial, federal and cantonmentâcoexist, often at cross purposes to each other. It recommends making Karachiâs land-controlling and management authorities accountable to one central authority or made autonomous. “
‘Political will needed to end slavery’
National
December 19, 2020
LAHORE: There is nearly 6 million labour force in the brick kiln sector alone in the country out of which at least 3 million are in Punjab. They do not get the minimum wage which is Rs 1,295 per 1,000 bricks. Kiln workers are paid Rs 650-700 on average, says Mahr Safdar of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF).
“One brick kiln engages 35-50 families which produce 50,000 raw bricks daily. If we assume that 40 families work on average at a brick kiln, the owners are paying them Rs 24,000 less every month and there are 30 thousand brick kilns in Punjab alone,” he goes on to say. There is no social protection for brick kiln workers, no social security card which means no health cover. In 2013 the Supreme Court in a decision ordered all the chief secretaries to inform how many social security cards were made every month, he recalls.
Here s a report on how thousands of Balochs who opposed Chinese investments on their land disappeared
Pakistan s injustices in Balochistan are well-documented, but with the onset of CPEC projects in the region, human rights violations have only grown.
Here s a report on how thousands of Balochs who opposed Chinese investments on their land disappeared.
Balochistan, in Pakistan s southwest, is the largest and most resource-rich province in Pakistan.
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For more than 60 years, Balochs have fought for their independence.
However, their movement has caused gross human rights abuses.
Abdul Hameed Baloch s mother stopped speaking after she got to know that her son and Abdul s brother is among the list of 5,000 people who have gone missing from the province.