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...
ActionAid Pakistan is celebrating International Women Day 2012 with a zeal to bring forth issues of women living in far off areas of Pakistan. In this context, ActionAid Pakistan and its local partners working in different regions of Pakistan have conceived a collective plan to commemorate IWD in a more vigorous and effective way. 'Early Girl Marriage' issue has been taken up as a striking theme to work upon. Moreover ActionAid Pakistan is committed to launch women focused campaigns on 'Women's right to land and 'Promoting sustainable agriculture-linking practices to policy' for year 2012.
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...
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...