Climate impacts are set to stunt the growth of the fashion industry. Risks are not being planned for, as the industry focuses on mitigation rather than adaptation, a new report warns. …
What the Pakistan Accord means for fashion’s supply chain
The Pakistan Accord — a new, legally binding agreement spanning factory safety and improved working conditions for fashion’s supply chain — is the first regional successor of the Bangladesh Accord, …
Pakistan: SC rules wage structure should encompass cost of living
The Supreme Court has held that the wage structure ought to be crafted in a way that must provide not merely for the bare subsistence of life but also to …
‘Moving mountains’: How Pakistan’s ‘invisible’ women won workers’ rights
Shamim Bano has been an invisible worker for 40 years. Working 12-hour days from home as a “cropper” in the port city of Karachi, she cuts the loose threads off …
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With the government reluctant to ratify ILO C176, Pakistan’s miners are condemned to work in death traps
“Mohammad Israr, 17, says that he prays with a heavy heart every time he enters the deadly coal mine in the mineral-rich, south-western province of Balochistan that claimed the life …