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Advocacy / Express Tribune / Informal Sector / reforms / The News

Regulating domestic work

In this coauthored piece, Sidra Nizamuddin and Iftikhar Ahmad analyse the recently tabled #Punjab Domestic Workers Bill 2018. While it is a step in the right direction, an inconsistent and…

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December 28, 2018
Advocacy / Employment and Unemployment / Express Tribune / reforms

State of worker rights

This timing of this Labour Day is crucial. The incumbent governments' tenure is about to end and there would be special messages from the executive on how committed they are…

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May 3, 2018
Advocacy / Equality and Non-Discrimination / Express Tribune / Informal Sector / reforms

Labour: still the federal mandate?

The article was published on 4 April 2018 by the The Express Tribune. After the 18th Constitutional Amendment, parliament stopped enacting legislation on labour matters as it was argued that the subject…

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April 5, 2018
Advocacy / Employment and Unemployment / Equality and Non-Discrimination / Express Tribune / Informal Sector

No country for working women

The article was published on 10 March 2018 by the The Express Tribune. My article in today’s Daily Times explains the Universal Periodic Review process. Pakistan had its human rights record assessed on…

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March 11, 2018
Advocacy / Employment and Unemployment / Express Tribune / reforms / Trade Schemes-GSP+

GSP+ status: are threats of withdrawal real?

My article in today’s Express Tribune on GSP+ analyses the scheme and threats for withdrawal of preferential treatment by EU. No serious failure has been identified by the ILO in…

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October 28, 2017
Advocacy / Employment and Unemployment / Equality and Non-Discrimination / Express Tribune

Breastfeeding and SDGs

The article was published on 3 August 2017 by the The Express Tribune. More than 150 countries of the world are celebrating World Breastfeeding Week from first to seventh August. This year’s…

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August 4, 2017
Advocacy / Bonded / Forced Labour / Child Labour / Express Tribune / reforms

Child labour: lack of coherent reforms in Pakistan

The article was published on 1 July 2017 by the The Express Tribune. There are more than 20 laws in Pakistan which deal with different dimensions of child labour. However, they lack coherence. And…

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July 2, 2017
Advocacy / Express Tribune / Occupational Safety and Health​ / Other Working Conditions

Occupational accidents: moving towards safe work

This article brings forward new data on occupational accidents and suggests reforms in legal and administrative regime which can help in decreasing the number of such incidents (examples are Bladia…

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November 5, 2016
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