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🧹 How you clean your home vs. how sanitation workers clean your cities
With plungers? Hardly. In Pakistan, sanitation workers face exploitative working structures.
👉 Read more in our report: “Cut us open and see that we bleed like them”
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
With plungers? Hardly. In Pakistan, sanitation workers face exploitative working structures.
👉 Read more in our report: “Cut us open and see that we bleed like them”
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🧹 How you clean your home vs. how sanitation workers clean your cities
With plungers? Hardly. In Pakistan, sanitation workers face exploitative working structures.
👉 Read more in our report: “Cut us open and see that we bleed like them”
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
With plungers? Hardly. In Pakistan, sanitation workers face exploitative working structures.
👉 Read more in our report: “Cut us open and see that we bleed like them”
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
🧤 Sanitation work can be life-saving, essential and dignified.
Today is World Toilet Day, but for thousands of sanitation workers in Pakistan, their essential work remains dangerous and devalued.
😷 Workers often have no gloves, masks or safety.
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
Today is World Toilet Day, but for thousands of sanitation workers in Pakistan, their essential work remains dangerous and devalued.
😷 Workers often have no gloves, masks or safety.
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🧤 Sanitation work can be life-saving, essential and dignified.
Today is World Toilet Day, but for thousands of sanitation workers in Pakistan, their essential work remains dangerous and devalued.
😷 Workers often have no gloves, masks or safety.
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
Today is World Toilet Day, but for thousands of sanitation workers in Pakistan, their essential work remains dangerous and devalued.
😷 Workers often have no gloves, masks or safety.
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
🧹 What’s in your cleaning kit?
For many sanitation workers in Pakistan, the answer is heartbreaking: just sticks and scraps, without any safety equipment.
🙌 As we mark World Toilet Day today, join us in demanding dignity, safety, and protection for sanitation workers.
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
For many sanitation workers in Pakistan, the answer is heartbreaking: just sticks and scraps, without any safety equipment.
🙌 As we mark World Toilet Day today, join us in demanding dignity, safety, and protection for sanitation workers.
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🧹 What’s in your cleaning kit?
For many sanitation workers in Pakistan, the answer is heartbreaking: just sticks and scraps, without any safety equipment.
🙌 As we mark World Toilet Day today, join us in demanding dignity, safety, and protection for sanitation workers.
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
For many sanitation workers in Pakistan, the answer is heartbreaking: just sticks and scraps, without any safety equipment.
🙌 As we mark World Toilet Day today, join us in demanding dignity, safety, and protection for sanitation workers.
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
📢 Ahead of World Toilet Day tomorrow, we asked people in Pakistan about sanitation workers in their cities. Many of you told us that sanitation workers often work with little to no safety equipment and are exposed to dangerous working conditions — all to keep our cities clean. 🧹
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
📢 Ahead of World Toilet Day tomorrow, we asked people in Pakistan about sanitation workers in their cities. Many of you told us that sanitation workers often work with little to no safety equipment and are exposed to dangerous working conditions — all to keep our cities clean. 🧹
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
#WorldToiletDay 🌍
On this #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons, remember: human rights don’t fade with age. Across Pakistan, older people keep working, often without pensions or social protection.
Together, we can amplify their voices and demand a world where human rights last a lifetime.
#IDOP2025
Together, we can amplify their voices and demand a world where human rights last a lifetime.
#IDOP2025
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
On this #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons, remember: human rights don’t fade with age. Across Pakistan, older people keep working, often without pensions or social protection.
Together, we can amplify their voices and demand a world where human rights last a lifetime.
#IDOP2025
Together, we can amplify their voices and demand a world where human rights last a lifetime.
#IDOP2025
🇳🇵 Nepal: As an interim govt led by former chief justice Sushila Karki takes charge after youth-led protests & deadly violence, authorities must uphold human rights obligations & address impunity, poor governance & corruption under the rule of law.
🔗Joint statement: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
🔗Joint statement: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🇳🇵 Nepal: As an interim govt led by former chief justice Sushila Karki takes charge after youth-led protests & deadly violence, authorities must uphold human rights obligations & address impunity, poor governance & corruption under the rule of law.
🔗Joint statement: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
🔗Joint statement: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
His father waits for his return.
👉 Pakistani authorities must put an end to enforced disappearances. They must disclose Feroz’s whereabouts and of all those forcibly disappeared.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
👉 Pakistani authorities must put an end to enforced disappearances. They must disclose Feroz’s whereabouts and of all those forcibly disappeared.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
September 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
His father waits for his return.
👉 Pakistani authorities must put an end to enforced disappearances. They must disclose Feroz’s whereabouts and of all those forcibly disappeared.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
👉 Pakistani authorities must put an end to enforced disappearances. They must disclose Feroz’s whereabouts and of all those forcibly disappeared.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: Feroz Baloch, a university student, was abducted on his way to his university library in Rawalpindi.
His family is from Balochistan province, but his father sent him to study in Punjab in hopes of a brighter future for his son.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
His family is from Balochistan province, but his father sent him to study in Punjab in hopes of a brighter future for his son.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
September 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
PAKISTAN: Feroz Baloch, a university student, was abducted on his way to his university library in Rawalpindi.
His family is from Balochistan province, but his father sent him to study in Punjab in hopes of a brighter future for his son.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
His family is from Balochistan province, but his father sent him to study in Punjab in hopes of a brighter future for his son.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Bilal Orakzai was forcibly disappeared while returning from a protest in Peshawar on 31 July 2025. His whereabouts are unknown since.
Bilal has previously been implicated in criminal cases targeting him for his peaceful activism.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Bilal has previously been implicated in criminal cases targeting him for his peaceful activism.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
September 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Bilal Orakzai was forcibly disappeared while returning from a protest in Peshawar on 31 July 2025. His whereabouts are unknown since.
Bilal has previously been implicated in criminal cases targeting him for his peaceful activism.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Bilal has previously been implicated in criminal cases targeting him for his peaceful activism.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: Cousins, Muhammad Asif and Rasheed Baloch, were abducted from a picnic with their friends exactly seven years ago from today, on 31 August 2018.
Their family still waits for their return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Their family still waits for their return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
PAKISTAN: Cousins, Muhammad Asif and Rasheed Baloch, were abducted from a picnic with their friends exactly seven years ago from today, on 31 August 2018.
Their family still waits for their return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Their family still waits for their return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: This month, on 12 August 2025, Sarwech Sargani was abducted from his home in Karachi. Sarwech and his mother were assaulted by his abductors.
His mother believes Sarwech was a target of enforced disappearance because of her activism.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
His mother believes Sarwech was a target of enforced disappearance because of her activism.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
PAKISTAN: This month, on 12 August 2025, Sarwech Sargani was abducted from his home in Karachi. Sarwech and his mother were assaulted by his abductors.
His mother believes Sarwech was a target of enforced disappearance because of her activism.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
His mother believes Sarwech was a target of enforced disappearance because of her activism.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: In 2018, Muhammad Ibrar was 17 years old. He would turn 18 in December that year. It was also the year he was abducted from his home.
His parents hope he will celebrate his 25th birthday with them.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
His parents hope he will celebrate his 25th birthday with them.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
PAKISTAN: In 2018, Muhammad Ibrar was 17 years old. He would turn 18 in December that year. It was also the year he was abducted from his home.
His parents hope he will celebrate his 25th birthday with them.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
His parents hope he will celebrate his 25th birthday with them.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: University professor and father of two girls, Muhammad Awais, was forcibly disappeared from his home in 2016.
His daughters are now 10 and 13.
They are waiting for their father to return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
His daughters are now 10 and 13.
They are waiting for their father to return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
PAKISTAN: University professor and father of two girls, Muhammad Awais, was forcibly disappeared from his home in 2016.
His daughters are now 10 and 13.
They are waiting for their father to return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
His daughters are now 10 and 13.
They are waiting for their father to return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: Today on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, thousands of families await the return of their loved ones.
🔗 Read our joint statement here with seven other civil society organizations: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
🔗 Read our joint statement here with seven other civil society organizations: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
PAKISTAN: Today on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, thousands of families await the return of their loved ones.
🔗 Read our joint statement here with seven other civil society organizations: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
🔗 Read our joint statement here with seven other civil society organizations: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Sadiq Amin, a 30-year-old construction worker, was forcibly disappeared from his home in March 2021.
Seven years ago from that day, in 2014, his brother, Zahid Amin, was similarly abducted.
Their family are waiting for them to return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Seven years ago from that day, in 2014, his brother, Zahid Amin, was similarly abducted.
Their family are waiting for them to return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Sadiq Amin, a 30-year-old construction worker, was forcibly disappeared from his home in March 2021.
Seven years ago from that day, in 2014, his brother, Zahid Amin, was similarly abducted.
Their family are waiting for them to return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Seven years ago from that day, in 2014, his brother, Zahid Amin, was similarly abducted.
Their family are waiting for them to return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: Zahid Amin was abducted from his home in 2014. He was newly married and 19 at the time.
👉 Pakistani authorities must put an end to enforced disappearances. They should disclose Zahid’s whereabouts and of all those forcibly disappeared.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
👉 Pakistani authorities must put an end to enforced disappearances. They should disclose Zahid’s whereabouts and of all those forcibly disappeared.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
PAKISTAN: Zahid Amin was abducted from his home in 2014. He was newly married and 19 at the time.
👉 Pakistani authorities must put an end to enforced disappearances. They should disclose Zahid’s whereabouts and of all those forcibly disappeared.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
👉 Pakistani authorities must put an end to enforced disappearances. They should disclose Zahid’s whereabouts and of all those forcibly disappeared.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: Mahjabeen Baloch, a 23-year-old student, was abducted from her hostel on 29 May 2025. Just five days ago, her brother Younus Baloch was forcibly disappeared.
Their family, parents and sister, have no information about their whereabouts.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Their family, parents and sister, have no information about their whereabouts.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
PAKISTAN: Mahjabeen Baloch, a 23-year-old student, was abducted from her hostel on 29 May 2025. Just five days ago, her brother Younus Baloch was forcibly disappeared.
Their family, parents and sister, have no information about their whereabouts.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Their family, parents and sister, have no information about their whereabouts.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: What do teachers, students, labourers, minors, people with disabilities & activists in Pakistan have in common? Enforced disappearances.
On International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, families are left only with questions and no answers.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
On International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, families are left only with questions and no answers.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
August 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
PAKISTAN: What do teachers, students, labourers, minors, people with disabilities & activists in Pakistan have in common? Enforced disappearances.
On International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, families are left only with questions and no answers.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
On International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, families are left only with questions and no answers.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
PAKISTAN: In a new report “Cut Us Open and See That We Bleed Like Them”, Amnesty International documents how sanitation workers are subjected to discriminatory practices on the basis of caste and religion.
Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
#EndCasteinSanitation
Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
#EndCasteinSanitation
July 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
PAKISTAN: In a new report “Cut Us Open and See That We Bleed Like Them”, Amnesty International documents how sanitation workers are subjected to discriminatory practices on the basis of caste and religion.
Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
#EndCasteinSanitation
Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
#EndCasteinSanitation
🚨🚨PAKISTAN: Amnesty International issues urgent action calling for immediate release of six Baloch activists detained for more than three months.
📢Free Mahrang Baloch
📢Free Bebarg Zehri
📢Free Beebow Baloch
📢Free Shah Jee Sibghat Ullah
📢Free Ghaffar Qambarani
📢Free Gulzadi Baloch
Link below ⬇️
📢Free Mahrang Baloch
📢Free Bebarg Zehri
📢Free Beebow Baloch
📢Free Shah Jee Sibghat Ullah
📢Free Ghaffar Qambarani
📢Free Gulzadi Baloch
Link below ⬇️
July 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🚨🚨PAKISTAN: Amnesty International issues urgent action calling for immediate release of six Baloch activists detained for more than three months.
📢Free Mahrang Baloch
📢Free Bebarg Zehri
📢Free Beebow Baloch
📢Free Shah Jee Sibghat Ullah
📢Free Ghaffar Qambarani
📢Free Gulzadi Baloch
Link below ⬇️
📢Free Mahrang Baloch
📢Free Bebarg Zehri
📢Free Beebow Baloch
📢Free Shah Jee Sibghat Ullah
📢Free Ghaffar Qambarani
📢Free Gulzadi Baloch
Link below ⬇️