The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice will be meeting for three consecutive days this week to take up over a dozen private member’s bills. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice will be meeting for three consecutive days this week to take up over a dozen private member’s bills, including seven constitution amendment bills.
The agenda for the meeting starting from July 13 issued by the NA Secretariat shows that the committee headed by Riaz Fatyana of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) will take up a total of 16 bills, mostly moved by the opposition members.
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June 12, 2021
On the eve of World Day Against Child Labour, the Hari Welfare Association (HWA) said on Friday that children in Sindh province were engaged in the worst forms of child labour with indecent and inhuman living and working conditions mainly because of the non-implementation of several bills related to them.
The rights body said the non-implementation of the Sindh Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2013, the Sindh Bonded Labour System Abolition Act, 2015, the Sindh Prohibition of Employment of Children Act, 2017, The Sindh Child Protection Authority Act, 2011, and Sindh Tenancy Act, 1950, posed question mark on a performance of the authorities in the province. It said that in Sindh, 6.4 million children were out of school, and the vast majority was engaged in child labour.