11-year struggle for home-based workers´ rights set to bear fruit this year
(WorldNews Pakistan)

For Zehra Khan, 2019 is a year of great achievements. After eleven years of tirelessly struggling for the protection and rights of home-based workers, she will finally get to see the Sindh government implement the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act, 2018, promising legal rights to social security, employment and old-age benefits to thousands of labourers who work from home. Khan, the serving secretary general of the Home-Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF), took the initiative to organise women labourers across the province, particularly urban areas, back in 2009. “It was almost impossible for me to organise thousands of unknown women workers, but a few brave home-based women workers and...