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Article

25 Oct 2009

Author:
Zee News

Three million Pakistani children engaged in labour: UNICEF

...Pakistan has banned child labour in hazardous professions like tanneries, scavenging, making of surgical instruments and glass bangles, coal mining and fishing...[N]othing is being done to implement the law...Children work in all operations related to leather tanning, mixing or application of pesticides and insecticides, sandblasting and other work involving exposure to free silica...in the manufacturing and sale of fireworks, explosives, liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and compressed natural gas (CNG), glass and metal furnaces, cloth printing and dyeing...in sewer pipelines, pits and storage tanks, stone crushing, lifting and carrying of heavy weights especially in the transport industry...in hotels, carpet weaving, tobacco processing and manufacturing units, the wool industry, ship breaking and spice grinding sites, boiler houses and cinemas...