The conference underscored severe, ongoing issues in the textile and garment industries KARACHI. Experts and union leaders demanded on January 24 that employees in the garment and textile industries be given their due rights, including standard salaries and protections, while rejecting the
KARACHI: Amid their ongoing province-wide boycott of academic activities, protesting university teachers took to the streets on 22nd January and demanded that the government withdraw its plan to appoint bureaucrats as vice chancellors of public sector universities and notification regarding the hiring
HYDERABAD: Experts at a two-day international conference on 16th January called for women’s participation in decision-making and agricultural practices through education and capacity-building programs and underscored the need for empowerment of rural women in livestock management through targeted training and resource allocation
KARACHI: Teachers representing the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (Fapuasa) on 15th January announced that they would suspend teaching activities on all campuses across the province from 16th January (today) in protest over several government decisions including a plan
The Sindh government has announced a plan to provide jobless young people with electric vehicles (EV) in easy instalments, with the objective of offering them a sustainable livelihood while promoting environmental sustainability. The initiative, which aims to deal with the rising unemployment
PAKISTAN’S first comprehensive occupational safety and health (OSH) profile exposes the inadequacies of worker protection in a country where over 72m people constitute the formal workforce. It arrives against a backdrop of preventable industrial tragedies: the 2012 Baldia factory fire in Karachi,
HYDERABAD: Sindh Higher Education Commission’s chairman, Prof Dr S.M. Tariq Rafi, has lamented that the government spends huge amounts of public money to prepare doctors, who can serve the community but if female students, who dominate medical institutions, do not join the
Sindh Governor and Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) Chancellor Kamran Tessori has urged female medical and dental graduates to actively contribute to the healthcare sector instead of shelving their degrees. Addressing the 14th convocation of the DUHS as the guest of
KARACHI: Representatives of different governmental organisations, civil society activists, media personnel, academia and lawyers at a meeting emphasised the need for finalising provisions of the ‘Sindh Women Agricultural Workers Act’ to safeguard women farmers’ rights. The meeting of the Provincial Stakeholders Alliance
Meeting highlights importance of brands complying with safety protocols KARACHI: The National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) held a consultative session on October 27 with affiliates from the Industrial ALL Global Union textile and garment sector to discuss the implementation of workplace safety