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Enhancing women workers awareness on their rights and labor laws
Donor: USAID/Aurat Foundation Period: July 2014- September 2015 Target Area: Sahiwal District Summary: This project focusing on women from formal and informal sectors to make them aware about their rights and labour laws and organizing them into groups, so that they can act as mentors for their peers. Through this initiative women working in the formal and informal sectors will be brought together on one plateform- an innovative mechanism for their collective engagement. The employers of formal sectors will be trained for Sexual Harassment Act so that they could place develops human resource policies accordingly to facilitate the women workers. |
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Promotion of rights of bonded labors in Okara District
Donor: The Fund for Global Human Rights Period: July 2011-June 2013 Target Area: Okara District Summary: The focus of the project is to resolve bondage issues through promotion and protection of rights of bonded labourers in Okara District by advocacy initiatives. For this purpose IDA is planning to activate the functioning of DVC, build capacity of DVC members, train CBOs, organize seminar, rallies, and corner meetings with brick kiln owners and owners and a debate competition among students of law colleges. |
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Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Bonded Laborers in Pakpattan District
Donor: Trocaire Period: March 2010- February 2013 Target Area: Pakpattan District Summary: The focus of the project is to increase; the ability of kiln workers to receiving minimum wages as per labor laws, the access to workers to get CNICs, Social Security Cards and Old Age benefit Cards, to unionize the bonded labor and to enroll the children of bonded laborers to school to get education facilities. The achievements of this project would have strong demonstration effect on Punjab Government and in the district. |
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Ending Child Labor through Education (ECLE)
Donor: Self-support Period: January- December 2011 Target Area: Sahiwal district Summary: The project is specifically focusing on providing non-formal education to the children working at kiln. This education will help liberating the children from the shackles of the brick kiln owners. It will help redress the issue of child labor and bondage of children at brick kilns by providing a healthy and constructive learning environment to the children. These deprived children will have the opportunity to become aware and learn about their rights and will be able to read and write and check their accounts & products. Once out of bondage they will be able to make career choices about their future. The education will help them to be placed in different fields of their choice. Those who go back to work in brick kilns will be equipped with education that will help them to fight for their rights and get out of bondage. More than 150 working children out of 150 families will continue their basic education and 450 children, 300 male & 450 female will indirectly beneficiaries of this proposed project. |
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Ending Child Labor through Education (ECLE)
Donor: UNCFS Period: January- December 2011 Target Area: Sahiwal district Summary: The project is specifically focusing on providing non-formal education to the children working at kiln. This education will help liberating the children from the shackles of the brick kiln owners. It will help redress the issue of child labor and bondage of children at brick kilns by providing a healthy and constructive learning environment to the children. These deprived children will have the opportunity to become aware and learn about their rights and will be able to read and write and check their accounts & products. Once out of bondage they will be able to make career choices about their future. The education will help them to be placed in different fields of their choice. Those who go back to work in brick kilns will be equipped with education that will help them to fight for their rights and get out of bondage. More than 150 working children out of 150 families will continue their basic education and 450 children, 300 male & 450 female will indirectly beneficiaries of this proposed project. |
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Rehabilitation of brick kiln workers through economic, legal and educational empowerment
Donor: International Labor Organization (ILO) Period: 2 months Target Areas: 3 districts (Sahiwal, Pakpattan and Okara) of Sahiwal Division |
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The Elimination of Torture by Implementing Bonded Labor Abolition and Factory Acts
Donor: UNCFS Period: 6 months (June-November 2009) Target Area: Sahiwal District Struggle against slavery through education Donor: UNCFS Period: 12 months (January-December 2010) Target Area: Sahiwal District |
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The Elimination of bonded labor through formation and activation of DVC
Donor: Action Aid Period: 7 months (June-December 2009) Target Area: Pakpattan District |
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The Empowerment of farmer/Labor councilors and bonded labor in Sahiwal District Donor: CIDA-DSP Period: May 2007- October 2008 Target Area: Sahiwal District |
