Child Domestic Workers in Pakistan: Challenges, Legislative Interventions, and Finding a Way Forward

Ayesha Shahid

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Chapter 10 Child Domestic Workers in Pakistan: Challenges, Legislative Interventions, and Finding a Way Forward

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Seiten:: 185–207

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004520806_011

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Domestic work is one of the oldest and socially acceptable form of informal labour for women and the girl child in the informal labour sector. Carrying out domestic work in others households is perceived to be a safe occupation for young girls, who are sent by their families to work as domestic workers to make ends meet. Young girls are denied the opportunity to receive education and skills needed for gainful future employment, thereby perpetuating a cycle of poverty in the family. Due to the gendered nature of domestic work it has become an undervalued, unrecognised, and lowest paid form of labour. Moreover, inadequate legislation poses a challenge to protect the rights of child domestic workers. In developing countries like Pakistan where incomes are low and few employment opportunities for women, there is always an available pool of women and the girl child who enter into domestic service. In Pakistan with a strong system of social hierarchy, the discrimination faced by the girl child is more pronounced. She suffers exploitation, all forms of abuse, and discrimination on the basis of her gender as well as class. This chapter addresses the question to what extent Pakistan has proactively addressed the rights of child domestic workers through legislation, and whether recent legislative interventions have been effective in protecting child domestic workers in Pakistan?

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The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Volume 6

Reihe: The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Band: 6

Cover The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

ISBN:: 9789004520806

Verleger:: Brill | Nijhoff

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 06 Sep 2022

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