Mahesh's Blog – November 2010 Archive (4)

Tortured Dalit cotton picker dies

Th Bheel (Dalit) cotton picker who was first tortured and then set on fire at the instigation of a landlord died in the civil hospital Karachi on Tuesday after struggling with life for four days. The henchman of a landlord in Rabo village, Kot Ghulam Mohammad Town accused Roop Chand Bheel of stealing 25kg cotton. They detained him in the Otaq (place for male guest) of the… Continue

Added by Mahesh on November 18, 2010 at 14:27 — No Comments

Demanding his wages, minor burnt to death

A 17-year-old boy, who was set ablaze allegedly by his employers in Valsad when he demanded his wage arrears, died at a hospital on Sunday. Police have registered a complaint and are looking for the grocery shop owner and his family members.

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Added by Mahesh on November 16, 2010 at 7:07 — No Comments

Vehicle kills one young worker and injures another at the Karachi Ship Yard & Engineering Works-Nasir Mansoor,Deputy General Secretary, National Trade Union Federation

Karachi Ship Yard. Oct 25th 2010 Monday at 10am: There was big cry from

the workers as their young colleagues Mohammed Sadique (22 years old)

a Gas Cutting operator and Nabiel Ahmed (20 years) an Fabricator,

working on under construction War Ship frigate F22P was overrun by the

Navy Commando vehicle moving with reckless speed of 100km/h in Ship

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Added by Mahesh on November 5, 2010 at 17:52 — No Comments

Sindh Assembly Resolution Empowering Home Based women Workers Adopted as shared by Zareen Akbar Khan

The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution pertaining to the protection of rights of home-based women workers and recommended that a campaign be launched

at the union council level to register such women to make them empower.…

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Added by Mahesh on November 4, 2010 at 13:10 — No Comments