Over 1.6 million children, between five and 17 years of age, in Sindh have been found to be trapped in child labour, revealed the Sindh Child Labour Survey 2022-2024.Conducted by the provincial labour ...

Over 1.6 million children in Sindh, Pakistan aged between five and 17 years, are trapped in child labour, according to the ...

As highlighted by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) on the Annual World Day against Child ...

Child labour in Pakistan is an issue of enormous scale and complexity. Estimates suggest that around 12 million children are engaged in child labour across the country.

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Pakistan also passed the Islamabad Domestic Workers Bill 2021 that was ratified into an act in 2022, outlawing child labor in domestic work completely. However, only the federally administered ...

Pakistan: When child labor becomes child abuse. ... The 1991 Child Labor Act has “major loopholes” that allow kids under 14 to work—“totally unregulated”—as domestic help or farm laborers.

The agreement, named after the city in which it was signed, was the first multi-stakeholder initiative of its kind, bringing together the International Labour Organisation, the Pakistan business ...

Social mobilization plays a pivotal role in addressing societal issues, particularly those related to human rights, women’s rights, gender-based violence, social cohesion and child labour. My ...

Child labour has surged in Pakistan in the year since record floods devastated much of the country, as some of the poorest families continue to be deprived of their livelihoods in local economies ...