"The unseen forces behind glittering garb", 13 March 2022

Over 12 million women working as home-based and domestic workers are denied basic rights in Pakistan. Women are employed at a large scale but their work is not fully recognised.

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The Labour Department has recently started registering home-based workers. Five hundred female workers have registered from the New Karachi area alone.

On International Women’s Day, March 8, the Home-Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) organised a rally titled Peace, Bread and Equality from Fawara Chowk in Saddar to Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi. Thousands of home-based workers, farmhands, industrial workers, social activists, labour leaders and trade union leaders participated in the rally and showed solidarity with working women.

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For the first time in the history of Pakistan, home-based workers have been brought under the ambit of minimum wages.