Pakistani affiliates take action on 7 October17 October, 2024On 7 October, World Day for Decent Work, IndustriALL affiliates in Pakistan held countrywide protest action against precarious work, anti-worker labour law reforms, and unsafe working conditions.
Safety lapses in Pakistan’s mines continue to claim workers’ lives 5 November, 2024The situation in Pakistan’s mine is still deplorable. In the last week of October, at least five workers were killed owing to safety lapses in the mining areas of Balochistan.
15 coal miners killed in Pakistan 14 January, 2025In the first two weeks of 2025, 15 miners have been killed in Pakistan’s coalfields. The absence of adequate safety mechanisms are behind the grim start of the year for the country’s miners.
Legally binding Accord delivers safer workplaces 23 April, 202524 April marks the anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in history. Over 1,100 workers, most of them women, lost their lives when the building housing several garment factories collapsed in 2013.
Lives saved, ships broken: the human cost and promise of ship recycling17 April, 2025Progress has never come easy to the shipbreaking yards of South Asia. Dangerous conditions, fragmented regulation and deep-rooted employer control have long defined an industry that dismantles the world’s ships, and too often, the people working on them.
Milestone for shipbreaking workers as global Convention comes into force 26 June, 2025Today, 26 June, marks the entry into force of the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships (HKC), a landmark step for workers in what is often called the world’s most dangerous industry.
Another three die at Gadani shipyard30 October, 2012On 20 October three workers died after a tank fell on them at the Gadani shipbreaking yard plot 91 in Pakistan.
Syngenta Pakistan refuses to regularize 50 contract workers27 September, 2012Swiss-based agrichemicals multinational Syngenta has behaved disgracefully in Pakistan since sacking the company-level union’s General Secretary in December 2010. During a very long legal battle for the right of 50 workers to permanent employment, management has rejected the judgements of numerous labour courts, ruling in favour of the workers.
Pakistan mine safety crisis continues30 January, 2020The start of 2020 has seen increasing accidents and deaths in Pakistan’s coal mines, exposing the near non-existence of safety measures and continued negligence from the employers and the government.
PROFILE: Fighting Forward: Home-based women workers organize in Pakistan13 November, 2019UnionHome-Based W
