KARACHI (ENNS) Sindh People’s Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 2030) was held at Karachi by Legal RightsForum/ Pakistan Development Alliance, participated by SDG Unit Sindh, PFSA, CSOs, Academia, Trade Union, Labour Workers, Youth, Minorities, Transgenders, Media, Bar Associations and others.
Kramat Ali, Asif Iqbal, Mumtaz Ali, Malik Tahir Iqbal, Anis Danish, Sabiha Shah and others spoke on the occasion.
During Assembly, various marginalized people i.e. Home based workers, minority workers raised their voices, concerns, challenges and highlighted issues related to decent work and social protection under SDGs Goal 8 (Decent Work & Economic Growth).
This mobilisation under Sindh People’s Assembly is part of a global movement of #PeoplesAssembly2020 organised by civil society, grassroots and marginalized peoples and communities across the globe to raise voices and key issues to influence policies from the local to global levels.
The key demands were raised in People’s Assembly the immediate elections of the local governments to ensure effective engagement of the citizens in realization of the SDGs.
People’s Assembly also demanded the availability of baseline data related to all SDGs for effective implementation and monitoring.
Ensure Protection of workers in Informal Economy by introducing Universal Social Protection for all.
People’s Assembly demanded the implementation of Minimum wages across sectors including Home Based and Domestic work.
Ensure implementation of protection against harassment at workplace laws across the country by setting up structures, allocating adequate resources and extending its outreach by protecting the workers in the informal economy.
Ensure protection of workers through implementation of labour mechanism as envisaged in provincial laws.
Set up mechanism for ensuring increase in women labour force participation.
Ensure integration of available social protection and safety nets with labour issues.
Ensure registration of daily wage workers and develop policy frameworks to bring daily wages workers in mainstream.
Ensuring right to organize and collective bargaining for workers across sectors.
People’s Assembly demands information on SDGs to be made part of the curriculum.
