- Ex-SCBA chief urges parliament to reconsider law
Former Supreme Court Bar Association president and human rights activist Asma Jahangir has expressed serious concern over the death of a teenage domestic worker, who was reportedly tortured to death by his owner.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, she said that violence on underage domestic workers has reached at an unacceptable level. The report of the teenage worker’s killing by an influential family member was hair-raising, she added.
Asma said that it was a matter of great concern that those who were poor and extremely needy were firstly exploited by making children work while their employers use indiscriminate violence on them. “Even more painful is the fact that in most cases, the poverty of the family is exploited through legal means where influential people buy off families and escape convictions,” she pointed out.
The former SCBA president also urged the parliament to reconsider the law and make all offences that bodily harm a person a penal offence, which cannot be compounded or forgiven.