Home-based workers take to streets for rights.

KARACHI -- On the occasion of the International Day of Home-based Workers, a large number of home-based workers staged a big rally in Karachi on Monday and demanded of the Sindh government to issue early notification of rules and procedures of Sindh Home-based Workers Act so that the law could be practically implemented.

The rally staged from Fuwara Chowk marched to the Karachi Press Club (KPC), led by HBWWF central general secretary Zehra Khan. Carrying flags, banners and placards, they chanted slogans for their rights.

Addressing the rally, Zehra Khan said the home-based women workers of the country, especially Sindh province, as a result of their untiring struggle of 10 years, had got accepted their legal status, which was a historic milestone not for the home-based workers of this country but also for this region. She said HBWWF had been raising voice for last three decades for women workers, including peasant women of Okara, leady health workers, lady teachers and...