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The Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act, 2010 is a legislative act in Pakistan that seeks to protect women from sexual harassment at their place of work. The Acts of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) received the assent of the President on 9 March, 2010.
Human trafficking in Pakistan. In 2017 Pakistan was a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labour and prostitution. The largest human trafficking problem was bonded labour, concentrated in the Sindh and Punjab provinces in agriculture and brick making, and ...
According to data produced by the CIA World Factbook, the total number of Pakistan's labour force is 57.2 million, making it the ninth largest country by available human workforce. [1] About 43% of this labour is involved in agriculture, 20.3% in industry and the remaining 36.6% in other services. The conditions under which Pakistan's blue ...
Child labour in Pakistan is the employment of children to work in Pakistan, which causes them mental, physical, moral and social harm. Child labour takes away the education from children. [ 1 ] The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated that in the 1990s, 11 million children were working in the country , half of whom were under age ten.
Pakistan is a member of the ILO. Trade unions in Pakistan are regulated under provincial industrial relations acts. [ 1] Under the Constitution of Pakistan, labour is considered a shared responsibility of the federal and provincial governments. [ 2] The latest Industrial Relation Act was promulgated on 12 March 2012 by President of Pakistan. [ 3]
While the tradition of British law culture continues to remain an integral part of the judiciary, the modern existence of the Supreme Court of Pakistan came when the first set of the Constitution of Pakistan was promulgated on 23 March 1956.: 10–11 [8]: 24–26 [9] The ratification of the Constitution of Pakistan reestablished the Supreme ...
Marriageable age and divorce. Divorce in Pakistan is regulated by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act (1939, amended in 1961) and the Family Courts Act (1964). The Child Marriage Restraint Act or CMRA (1929) set the marrying age for women at 16; in the province of Sindh, as per the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, it is 18.
In 2010, Foreign Policy ranked Pakistan as number ten on its Failed States Index, placing it in the "critical" category with such other failed or failing states as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Somalia. [5] Pakistan consistently figures near the top of the list of failed states year after year. [21]