The Government should also
ensure for the implementation of laws on Dowry and Marriage Function in order
to eliminate Social evils and save the suffering poor segments of the Society
against Social &
Economic repercussions. These demands were raised to day on 8 March, 2012 in a Protest March held on International WOMEN DAY under the aegis of
Pakistan Workers Federation Women Wing outside Bukhtiar Labour Hall, Nisbat
Road, Lahore and was led by Mrs. Huma Aziz Chairperson alongwith other Trade Union representatives
namely Ms. Zahid Akhtar, Ms. Musart Iqbal, Amra Kurram, Shabnam Manzoor, Ms. Nasreen,
Najia Hassan and Lubna Yasmin, . They were carrying Banners and raising slogans in support of these
demands.
Earlier, the meeting of
Women Workers was held at Bukhtiar Labour Hall, to commemorate "International Women
Day" and addressed a large number of Trade Union Workers belonging to
the various affiliate trade union including
Government and Semi Government and Private Sector.
The speakers also stressed
the need that the fundamental rights of Women for access to education and health and
life be ensured since the Government policies had been making rich to richer
and poor
to poorer and the feudalistic system were required to be abolished for uplift
of the Rural Women which
were poor of the poorest.
Advice from Osama Tariq Deputy General Secretary Pakistan Workers Federation
Lahore,Pakistan.
