{"id":25263,"date":"2020-12-01T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/01\/moving-mountains-how-pakistans-invisible-women-won-workers-rights"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T06:00:19","slug":"moving-mountains-how-pakistans-invisible-women-won-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25263","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Moving mountains\u2019: How Pakistan\u2019s \u2018invisible\u2019 women won workers\u2019 rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home workers in Sindh province are celebrating new social security benefits, after being denied lockdown funding<\/p>\n<p>Shamim Bano has been an invisible worker for 40 years. Working 12-hour days from home as a \u201ccropper\u201d in the port city of Karachi, she cuts the loose threads off clothing and makes samosas to sell at schools.<\/p>\n<p>Bano is paid about 25 Pakistani rupees (\u00a30.10) a day. It\u2019s a precarious existence for Pakistan\u2019s home-based workers, without access to social security benefits or pensions. Most of these informal workers are women.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/01\/moving-mountains-how-pakistans-invisible-women-won-workers-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home workers in Sindh province are celebrating new social security benefits, after being denied lockdown fundingShamim Bano has been an invisible worker for 40 years. Working 12-hour days from home as a \u201ccropper\u201d in the port city of Karachi, she cuts t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[847,59,60,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25264,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263\/revisions\/25264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}