While marking 2nd anniversary of floods 2010 & 2011, ActionAid Pakistan facilitated flood affectees to develop an interface with the policy makers and demand for fulfillment of their rights which...
In the wake of disaster, it was found that women being the most marginalized community in Pakistan face serious issues of food insecurity. Willful negligence and violation of the rights of the poor...
Since heavy disasters hit Pakistan uninterruptedly causing a wide scale destruction of lives, property, homes, and livelihood sources, the government of Pakistan, at last, realized the worth of...
The process of land allotment to almost a hundred thousand (100000) families in district Rahim Yar Khan (ActionAid’s LRP 22) has been started by the provincial government of Punjab. It forebodes...
Mine workers in Pakistan have been living a very miserable life due to absence of any kind of social security for them. They are deprived of basic rights of occupational safety and health facility....
Scheduled Caste Right Movement (SCRM) has gained momentum to embrace success of their years-long struggle to seek fulfillment of their basic rights as citizens of Pakistan.It has been reflecting...
Pakistan is one of those countries across the globe where size of youth is enormously big. Many factors may have contributed to this phenomenon of youth bloom like absence of an effective family...
In a country stained with staunch patriarchal mindset, values and systems it is not easy to break the internal shackles at a personal level. It is strikingly easy to shout slogans, attend trainings...
These three words; Poverty, hunger and Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) are widely used day and night and all the stakeholders are working although on papers day and night to reduce poverty and...
I don’t think anyone can deny the importance of education to the growth and development of a nation. However, the complacent attitude of our previous and current governments towards this issue is,...
Women across the world are waging struggle to undo the discrimination and injustice being meted out to them in different walks of life. Situation of women in Pakistan is more complicated as they face...
In a society where women are not treated equally, life for a girl child becomes discriminatory, unjust and considerably miserable. Such is the case in most parts of Pakistan where girls are inhumanly...
It was only by chance that I became a humanitarian worker. When I was young my father was diagnosed with cancer and we were told we had to raise huge sums of money to pay for his treatment....
I joined ActionAid Pakistan in November 2010 when the devastating flood had just hit the country and its impact was still unrolling. ActionAid had initiated a timely and well-coordinated emergency...
ActionAid Pakistan has planned a series of events and activities to mark the one year anniversary of the 2010 floods that caused massive devastation in our country. The commemoration of "floods - one...
People living in far off areas of Pakistan face serious problems of food insecurity in the wake of price hike and economic depression in the open market. They maintain their household budget on daily...
‘This was the most successful day of my life when I received certificate of land allotment. I could not believe that our struggle and commitment to claim our rights would bring us such a big joy. My...
Rubina got married when she was just 12 years old. Her husband also was of same age. She did not know what marriage does mean to a child. It brought a shocking change in her life. Her husband could...
Kareema is a widow. She has five daughters and three sons. Floods hit them twice and she lost her home as well as other means of living. A small (landless) farmer as she is and has been, she suffered...
Dhapo is a widow. She has seven children (three daughters and four sons). A few years back, her husband died in a tragic accident while digging a well when he fell into it and was buried alive. She...
Sassi hails from a poor family. Her husband is a labourer. They had a small house of their own before it was destroyed by unrelenting monsoon rainfall, so she had to give birth in a cave during the...
Umerkot is one of the worst flood affected districts of Sindh, Pakistan. It is contrary to environmental characteristics of the area that it floods with rainwater. People have constructed their...
With two disabled sons, life was difficult enough for Zainab before the floods left her family homeless. Now she has lost her livestock and her village is completely under water.
In Pakistan, there is no law for registering Hindu marriages. As a result, Hindu married women are unable to get their National identity cards that show their ‘married’ status or bear their husband...
It was beginning of 2008 when upon refusal to pay the undue tax amount; the local Tapedar roped a poor farmer Ghulam Abbas Lanjwani and illegally detained and tortured him in his official residence.
Salma Khatoon, a 21 years old mother of two children, Asif aged 4 and Gul aged 2, was struggling to provide food for her children after the floods hit her village in the outskirts of Charsadda (...
