Some factor­ies do not provid­e clean drinki­ng water, deduct salari­es of worker­s who fall sick, says report­ISLAMABAD: Millions of workers in Pakistan’s garment industry face routine abuse from sexual harassment to beatings to being refused toilet breaks, human rights activists said on Wednesday. Pakistan: Garment Workers’ Rights at Risk https://t.co/GgTWnLabuR — Human Rights Watch (@hrw) January 23, 2019“Pakistan’s government has long neglected its obligations to protect the rights of the country’s garment workers,” said HRW’s Asia director Brad Adams in a statement. HRW interviewed more than 140 people, including garment workers, and found that most were forced to work overtime, denied wages, paid and maternity leave, and given short-term, oral contracts. This is very embarrassing,” said Faiza, a garment worker quoted in the report. The garment industry accounts for over half of Pakistan’s export earnings, supplying buyers in the United States, Europe and China.

Source: The Express Tribune January 23, 2019 15:11 UTC