THIS is with reference to half-page advertisements in several newspapers marking the Human Rights Day (Dec 10) by the Human Rights Department of Sindh. The advertiser should have first taken a look at the ground reality before placing such an advertisement.

We have sanitary workers in the province who are given less than the minimum legal wage, discriminated by religion-specific advertisements, and made to enter raw sewage gutters. We have private security guards given less than half the wage for 12-hour duty.

There are underage miners who die almost every week in the cruel unregistered coal mines of Sindh. Every petrol station worker performs 24-hour duty, but receives less than Rs20,000.

About 90 per cent of all industrial workers are not registered with the Employees` Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI).

The compromised officials allow all this tohappenevenafterallthese and other issues have been highlighted numeroustimes to all human rights departments and commissions at provincial and federal levels along with photographs and videos.

Is it ethical and appropriate for the provincial Human Rights Department to further waste taxpayers` money on expensive advertisements in multiple newspapers, or is it simply an attempt to fool the public for political mileage? Naeem Sadiq Karachi