NGOs in Pakistan are consistently being propagating the agenda of rights, be it labor rights, social security rights, protection rights through trade unions, alliances and networks around...
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...
After years of shouting slogans and sitting in conferences, seminars and trainings where we talk and talk and yet talk about the emancipation of women rights, we become de-sensitized to feel the...
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...
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,...
Helpless we are not Or powerless any more, We are masters of our destiny! You can control us, no more, no more! Gone are the days when we could be driven You can oppress us, no more, no more! We are...
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...
Time to nab poor governance
By: Javed Shabbir Choudry
Whenever a tragedy hits Pakistan, poor people are screwed up. They are deprived of whatever little possession they do have. They become...
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....
